The Roadhouse Ramblers snapped the Midget A Mustangs 10-game win streak with the help of hot goaltender Corey MacEachern.

The 33-year-old MacEachern earned a shutout in the Ramblers 2-0 win over the Mustangs in their Whitehorse Recreational Hockey League (WRHL) game at Takhini Arena Monday night.

"You got to be good to be lucky and lucky to be good,” he said. "When you're in the right spot, the puck hits you a lot of the times. They have a fast-skating team. I don't think they had a lot of quality chances, but when there was a rebound there, our defense cleared it out pretty easily.”

The game marked MacEachern's return to the ice after more than a year. Having won two Allan Cups with teams from down south, the Whitehorse goalie last played for the Huskies senior AAA team in the 2009-2010 season.

This year, MacEachern got the call to play for the Horse Lake Chiefs with hopes to reach the Allan Cup, the Canadian Senior AAA Hockey Championships, to be held in Lloydminster, Sask., in April.

Last night's game against the Mustangs was his first step toward that goal.

And it was a firm-footed step.

MacEachern looked sharp from puck drop, shutting the door on scrambles in front and sweeping away rebounds on odd-man rushes until his club shifted the momentum to pepper Mustangs goalie Patrick Soprovich nearing the end the first half.

Ramblers forward Clayton Thomas opened the scoring at 13:37 of the second off a breakout feed from Tim McIntosh.

The Mustangs countered with fore-checking pressure and outside shots on MacEachern.

But inexperience began to show in the Mustangs, who began carrying the puck instead of dumping it in to use their speed and energy along the boards.

Mustangs head coach Jay Glass said doing too much with the puck is uncharacteristic of his team.

"When we were down 1-0 – that was the first time we were down all season – we started to try to do too much, typical of a young team,” Glass said.

"We started to stay out there too long, we weren't driving pucks wide, guys were really putting a lot of pressure on themselves to get it done, and we can't do that. It's a team game. We just got to play the same way and learn how to compete when we're down.”

The Ramblers defense played like a wall at the blue line, gobbling up the puck and countering with passes to forwards streaking through gaps in the middle.

"We can't let them get going and start to skate through the centre of the ice and we have to know when to be ready,” said Mustangs captain Michael Hare, in his third year with the club.

"We didn't give up the whole game, which is always good to be able to say at the end of a game, but we weren't all there mentally and we weren't able to finish some chances when we had them. Their goalie played exceptionally well today, so it was harder for us. I'm not that happy that we got a loss, but at least we gave it our best out there.”

The Mustangs were off to the club's best start in history, winning its first 10 games with 68 goals for and 12 against. Five of those wins came in the WRHL and the other five came in the Abbostford Midget Memorial Tournament held in B.C. earlier this month.

With 10 points, the Mustangs now sit fourth in the league with a 5-1 record that includes 37 goals for and six against. The AirNorth Jets and Roadhouse Ramblers also have 10 points, but the three-way tie for second is broken with goals for. The Jets have 50 goals for and 23 against and the Ramblers have 49 goals for and 25 against.

Yukon Brewing is top of the league with a 6-0 record for 12 points, scoring 42 for and 24 against.

"I wouldn't be too mad if I were those guys right now – that was just a good game,” Thomas said of the Mustangs.

"They're twice the team they were last year, classy. There are some guys that are small and strong; they're so strong on the puck. You used to be able to put your stick down and push them around a little bit. Now they hustle right through it. They play a clean game but they play a hard game. I thought they outplayed us.”