Pride was all members on the Whitehorse Mic Mac Bantam Mustangs were playing for in Sunday's finale against the Yellowknife Wolfpack.

Having lost the first two of a three-game series, the Mustangs wanted to give fans at Takhini Arena something to cheer about.

They did just that, winning the game 4-3 on a thrilling shootout goal by Tyson Glass.

"Just to get that one win was great," said Mustangs captain Brett Roulston. "We all wanted to win and I think we were all a little ticked off about losing the first two games."

The Mustangs dropped the first two games, played Friday and Saturday, by a combined 9-5 score. In each contest, Whitehorse trailed 4-0 before generating any offence of their own.

Sunday, however, Mustangs players showed a lot more jump and were determined not to make the same mistake.

Despite controlling most of the play in the opening 20 minutes, the Mustangs couldn't find the back of the net.

This included a productive powerplay that concluded the first frame.

Whitehorse had five shots on net in less than the two-minute time span, but when the buzzer sounded the score remained 0-0.

The scoreless drought ended not even a couple minutes into the second.

Unfortunately for the Mustangs though, it was the visiting team that got on the board.

The goal was scored by Yellowknife's Ryan McCauley, who jammed the puck in from close up after the on-ice Whitehorse players were unable to get it out of the zone.

A quick wrist shot by Glass at 14:17 tied the game at 1-1.

Glass' goal was followed up with a near miss on the very next play when the Mustangs rang a knuckler off the post.

However, thanks to Scott Meredith, Whitehorse took its first lead of the series in the final 10 minutes of the second.

Meredith, who was set up by Gibson Pearson, scored at 7:04.

The goal was greeted with a loud ovation from the crowd, who both cheered and applauded the team's sudden lead.

Yellowknife's team captain Keegan Hnatiw took the game into his own hands not even a couple minutes later.

Hnatiw broke into the Mustangs zone all alone, deked out both defencemen and then followed it up with a wrist shot that eluded Mustangs goalie Nigel Sinclair-Eckert.

The second frame ended with Yellowknife icing the puck and the score tied at two.

Roulston set the crowd into a frenzy in the third, netting the Mustangs third goal.

The puck was put in on a rebound that came right to Roulston, who was camped out by the side of the net.

"That's the way," shouted one fan.

What looked like a sure win for the Mustangs was put on hold after Whitehorse ran into some penalty trouble at 5:52.

Anthony Parsons scored for Yellowknife with fewer than 10 seconds remaining on the powerplay, sending the game into a five minute overtime session.

With nothing resolved in overtime, both teams went to a three-man shootout.

The two netminders were in top notch form, stopping two out of the three shots and forcing an additional shooter.

A miss from Fraser Oliver gave Whitehorse player Glass an opportunity to end the contest.

Glass didn't falter and sent a low shot that after hitting Wolfpack goalie, Kent Nilson, just managed to trickle into the back of the net.

Mustangs players flooded onto the ice to celebrate and were cheered enthusiastically by the majority of attendants in Takhini Arena.

The three star selection included Hnatiw, who was third, while Sinclair-Eckert was named second and Roulston took top honours.

Dave said it was important for the team to win the final game in front of the home crowd.

"We wanted to leave the arena with some pride and give the home crowd a show," he said. "Everybody was contributing this game and for once we weren't losing by 4-0 in the first period."

The Mustangs played the majority of the series without the help of one of their key players after forward Gage Preece suffered a shoulder injury in the opening period of the first game.

Mustangs coach Dave Pearson said he is hopeful that Preece will be back in the line-up in 10 to 14 days.

He added it was tough playing without him.

"During a game a coach's job is to try to motivate and keep the players from losing their composure and when you have one of your key guys go down it really hurts your chances if you lose your composure," he said.

"These guys are resilient and they play tough. Having lost the first two games they could have easily quit, but they didn't. They looked real good, I'm real proud of the guys."

He said the team played a lot tougher than they did in the first two games.

"It takes a while for us because we don't get that kind of competition," Dave said.

"We don't get to play that contact hockey. It takes a while to get used to it and it took a while for the kids to get used to battling and today they really battled and it showed."

Dave credited Roulston for one of the reasons the team came out on top.

"Brett's a very reliable player and a very good player," he said.

"When he is competing at that level he's a very successful player. When he's going, people look to him for leadership and that's why he's the captain."