It must have felt like deja vu for players on Edgewater Hotel Sunday in the Whitehorse Oldtimers Hockey League.

For a second straight time, the team won a close playoff game against first placed Medicine Chest.

This time around, however, Edgewater Hotel qualified for Wednesday's final, eliminating Medicine Chest, which finished with 12 more regular season wins.

In typical Oldtimer's hockey fashion, it will be fifth ranked Edgewater taking on sixth placed Kilrich in this year's final.

Kilrich is undefeated in post-season action and needs to lose twice before being knocked out, while Edgewater Hotel is facing elimination with one loss. Kilrich defeated Edgewater last week, breaking a 2-2 tie in the last minute.

If Edgewater Hotel wins on Wednesday, the two teams will play a final game on Thursday.

Sunday's game ended with three unanswered goals, with the last being scored on the penalty kill on an open net.

The final score was 3-1.

"We played pretty well all year against them (Medicine Chest) and any given night anybody can win," said Edgewater player Shelby Workman. "So I guess it was our night, I thought we skated real hard."

Kilrich finished the regular season with a record of 15-20-7, with 37 points in total.

Edgewater Hotel, meanwhile, finished with one more win, 18 losses and eight ties. The squad concluded the regular season with 40 points.

Workman was the team's substitute coach on Sunday, but he said he will definitely be in the lineup for Wednesday's tilt against Kilrich.

The first half of Sunday's contest featured a real goaltending duel between Medicine Chest's Glen Traverse and Edgewater Hotel's Scott Casselman. The two goalies matched each other save for save into the second period.

Medicine Chest finally broke the goose egg at 16:52 of the second frame when Greg Bull scored on rebound given up by Casselman.

Players on Edgewater didn't give up and continued pressure eventually resulted in a goal of their own, netted at 6:39. Gord Peterson chipped in the puck and was greeted with more than a few kind words when returning to the bench.

With the momentum behind them, members on Edgewater took their first lead of the contest, scoring once again not even five minutes later.

Roger Hewlett put the puck in on a hard shot that got by Traverse.

With 52 seconds remaining on the clock, Edgewater took a penalty for hooking, prompting Medicine Chest to pull Traverse in favour of a two man advantage.

However, the move didn't pay off and Edgewater's Brent Cooper fired a laser beam down the ice that landed practically in the centre of the net.

Medicine Chest failed to capitalize on five powerplays.

"It's called the first place jinx," said Workman. "Whoever gets first place doesn't usually win it and any given night we have beaten I think every team in the league at least once and they have beaten us at least once."

He said the team's strategy won't change against Kilrich on Wednesday, adding it simply involves skating hard and taking lots of shots.

"It will be a close game," Workman said, referring to Wednesday's final. "It will a one-goal game either way. Every game we have had this playoffs we have either won or lost by one-goal, so it's oldtimer hockey."

Mark Pike, a player on Medicine Chest said Edgewater was simply the better team.

"They beat us twice, so they deserved to be going on," he said.

He said the turning point of the game was when Edgewater Hotel scored its first goal.

Pike went on to wish Edgewater Hotel luck in the final, adding he hopes they win.