Trevor Linden was repeating, "Move your feet, move your feet, move your feet,” with absurd rapidity so that the three words ran together without pause.

The former Vancouver Canucks captain paced behind the Whitehorse Bantam B Mustangs.

The Mustangs were getting set to take on the Petitcodiac-Salisbury Bantam A Flyers at the Canada Games Centre on Saturday afternoon.

Former Toronto Maple Leafs captain Wendel Clark helped coach on the visitors' bench.

The Flyers had come a long way to be sitting there taking tips from Clark.

It wasn't the first superstar they'd run into on their journey.

Last fall, Michelle Nott, mother to Flyers' goaltender Alex, entered her son's team in the Scotiabank Big Save contest.

"I couldn't even imagine, the last few months we've been working towards it, talking about it, but it still didn't even seem like it was still going to happen, so to be sitting here in the rink tonight, I had a quiet moment, I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, it's here, we've done it, this is just phenomenal,” Nott said during the second intermission at the Western Hockey League game between the Vancouver Giants and the

Kamloops Blazers at Takhini Arena Saturday.

In December, they'd found out by video message from CBC's Ron MacLean that they'd won, which meant an all-inclusive trip to Whitehorse for Scotiabank Hockey Day in Canada.

Fifty people – 18 players, as well as coaches and parents – took the journey, and agreed they'd gotten nothing but star treatment since arriving in Whitehorse Friday afternoon on a charter flight with the Giants, the Blazers and former NHL coach Pat Quinn.

The Flyers had a layover in Vancouver Thursday night, and Friday morning in the VIP lounge had breakfast with Quinn.

"And the kids got to meet him, take pictures, get his autograph, all that good stuff,” Flyers coach Randy Howatt said.

But you could tell this was a meeting Howatt himself meant to savor.

"Actually, I spent probably more time than the rest of them did with him because as a coach you want to pick that kind of coaches head,” Howatt said. "He told the kids, play for the love of the game, don't play because mommy wants you to play or daddy wants you to play, if you're not enjoying it and playing for the love of the game, pack it in, go home.

"Regardless of where you go in your career, if anywhere, if you're going to keep playing hockey, play for the love of the game – that's the biggest thing I got out of him. And the passion he's got for hockey is obviously unparalleled,” a visibly excited Howatt added.

Flyers player Bradley Hicks enjoyed the Air North flight up to Whitehorse with the WHL players.

"It was very exciting to talk to them and hear what they had to say,” Hicks said.

And things only improved from there.

The team was given a king's welcome at the Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport.

"They've enjoyed every minute of it, from the time we got off the plane here in Whitehorse with the standing ovation coming through, all the Mustangs lined up shaking their hands when they came in, from there to here, has just been nothing but red carpet,” Howatt said while watching the WHL game.

"I honestly don't know how Whitehorse pulled it off. I honestly don't. It's so incredible.”

The Flyers got to share the ice with NHL alumni before playing their one o'clock game against the Mustangs Saturday afternoon before getting centreline seats for the WHL game.

Nott was in awe while watching the Flyers share the ice with some of the game's best players.

"I sat in the stands and I thought, ‘Oh my God, how great is that for a 14-year-old kid to be on the ice right now with a legend like that,'” Nott said of Clark. "To know that somehow I had a small part in that, it makes me feel awesome, to know that I could do that for 18 kids.”

Flyer Kyle Jewell was one of those 18 kids.

The experience wasn't lost on him.

"It's just an awesome experience. I'm glad that (Michelle Nott) entered the contest, because if she didn't we wouldn't be here right now,” Jewell said.

Jewell picked up a goal and an assist in the Flyers' 5-1 win over the Mustangs.

His first point came when he picked up a rebound at the side of the net, spun and slid the puck through the crease onto the tape of teammate Brandon Bourque.

The Mustangs answered at 8:41 of the first.

Malachi LaVallee picked up the puck from behind the net and found Andrew Glada in front.

Clark joined the team in the dressing room for first intermission.

"After the first period, he comes into the dressing room with us, and I said, ‘OK, Mr. Clark, the floor is your, tell them what they're doing wrong and right, help them out,'” Howatt said. "That was pretty neat. Honestly, he said the same thing I was saying: ‘OK, guys, once you get the puck back to the points, one guy in front of the net, the other two guys hunting for the puck,' is how he put it; I never put it that way.

But the biggest thing was respect the crease but crash the net and get some traffic in front of the goaltender, you do that at all levels. That was his big thing.”

The Flyers took the lead in the second with goals off Logan Elliott at 12:16 and Jewell at 4:45.

The home team took 12 penalties in the game – eight in the third alone and a game misconduct – to the visitors' four.

Mustangs goaltender Felix Russell said you can't win games by taking so many penalties.

"It started well. Things seemed to be going our way a little bit, and then at about the 10 minute mark, we started to lose control of the puck, we were making bad changes and they were able to put one in there on the power play because we took a stupid penalty,” Russell said.

"It was a good energy, it was fun; except we ran into a lot of penalty trouble. When we ran into penalty trouble, guys got to be more disciplined, but we weren't being disciplined, we just kept getting penalties and penalties.”

"If we didn't have as many penalties I think we probably could have won that game.”

Hicks agreed, saying that both teams were evenly matched.

Howatt said he was proud of his team for keeping their heads.

"It got a little unfortunate for a couple of the kids on the Whitehorse team, they sort of lost their heads a little bit – but, trust me, I've got kids that can do it too,” he said.

"I was impressed that our kids held their composure, because they very easily could have gone the other way.

"Down home we do play a little bit more of an aggressive game than what we played today, but I've got a funny feeling they probably play more aggressively than they played today as well.”

In the end, Nott said the entire experience helped make it the trip of a lifetime.

"They've just been over the moon. They'll probably be talking about this for a really long time, because even though Hockey Day in Canada is coming to an end today,

I'm sure that when we get home it's almost going to start all over again for all the people who were at home watching us, wanting to know all about it, all about the whole experience,” Nott said.

"Thank you so much to Whitehorse for the wonderful hospitality. All the parents have been saying that; they've never seen such a wonderfully warm bunch of people.”