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Inspired by a meeting with longtime Canadian hockey super麻豆社区Hayley Wickenheiser, the Great Canadian Dollar Store Female Mustangs skated to a second-place finish in Calgary over the weekend.

The local rep hockey team won their first three games of the Wickenheiser Female World Hockey Festival in convincing style, before dropping their final two matches to the eventual champion Stettler Storm.

"I expected the team to be in the finals,鈥� head coach Louis Bouchard told the Star. "I鈥坘new we were ready. The way the girls have been improving since September, they deserved to be there. Their hard work paid off.鈥�

The Female Mustangs competed in the tournament's Tier 3 midget division, but Bouchard believes his team will soon be ready to make the jump to Tier 2.

"Looking ahead, we should be ready to play Tier 2 in February,鈥� the coach said. "If we can be healthy and stay out of the penalty box, we will be contenders.鈥�

The tournament was the team's first of the season, and the Whitehorse club came out flying.

Goalie Ali Nordahl shut out the Yellowknife Wolfpack 4-0 in the club's first game, while Sierra Oakley (3G) and Davina McLeod (1G, 2A) provided the offensive power.

Despite the scoreline, the club suffered a huge loss when Mykhaila McInroy suffered a broken arm following a check into the boards with only 20 seconds left in the game.

Oakley and McLeod continued to light the lamp in the Mustangs' second game against the Airdrie Lightning, a 7-1 win.

Oakley recorded her second hat trick, while McLeod sniped a pair. Maddie Nicholson and Monica Johnson rounded out the scoring in a game where Whitehorse outshot their opposition 47-9.

Their third game, a rematch with Airdrie, featured more of the same, as Whitehorse outshot the Lightning 68-14 en route to a 10-2 win.

McLeod scored four goals, Nicholson added two, and Hannah Nordlund, Destiny Taylor, Sophie Janke and team captain Chyanne Spenner added singles.

But then came the Storm.

Stettler handed Whitehorse their first loss of the tournament, 5-2, in a game that saw Johnson get tossed for three penalties.

While Oakley and Haley McConnell did find the back of the net for the Mustangs, it would not be enough.

The gold-medal game featured a rematch of the fourth game, and Stettler beat up on the Mustangs again, this time winning 5-1.

"The game was a lot closer than the score suggested,鈥濃�圔ouchard pointed out. "We just were not able to set up our offence.鈥�

McLeod scored her team-leading ninth goal for the Mustangs, but it was the only one the team would get.

Despite the loss, the tournament was a good one for the Mustangs, whose roster consists of only eight midget-level players. The rest of the roster is fleshed out with bantam and peewee players, said Bouchard.