Despite an 0-5 record at the 2015 Canada Winter Games, Team Yukon’s female hockey team is revelling in a new record for goals scored – six.

The territory’s previous high was three, a mark achieved at the 2007 Canada Winter Games in Whitehorse.

Then at the 2011 tournament in Halifax, the team managed to light the lamp just once.

“It was great, because we ended up doubling the record,” team captain Sierra Oakley told the Star from Prince George, B.C., this morning.

“That was our goal from the start. It was an awesome experience. We played phenomenal.”

The 17-year-old left-winger had four goals on her own, while fellow forward Maddie Nicholson added two.

“I was in the right place at the right time,” Oakley said of her four goals, which currently sees her tied for sixth in the tournament.

Following four straight losses to Newfoundland 14-1 Saturday, New Brunswick 14-0 Sunday, the Northwest Territories 7-2 Monday and Newfoundland 18-0 in their first placement game Wednesday, the Yukon came out flying in yesterday’s finale versus their northern rivals.

While the result was the same, a 6-3 loss, the Yukon peppered the N.W.T. net with 25 shots, and added three more to their overall total thanks to goals by Oakley (2) and Maddie Nicholson.

“Records aside, what we look for is intensity,” said coach Louis Bouchard. “We want the girls to bring their game up every shift. We tell them not to look at the scoreboard. What we care about is the effort they put in.

“Our team got better and better as the games went on.”

Bouchard said many of the opposing coaches were surprised by the Yukon’s “never-give-up” attitude.

“We use hockey as an excuse to develop life skills,” the coach said. “The rink is just another place to do that, besides school and family.”

With only three 17-year-olds on the roster, the Yukon squad was easily the youngest competing in Prince George.

And two of the senior players, Oakley and centre Chyanne Spenner, had university scouts asking questions.

Many of the current group of players will be eligible to play in the next national tournament, scheduled for 2019 in Red Deer, Alta.

Patrolling the Yukon blue-line was 11-year-old Zoe Leas – the youngest player in the tournament.

Leas recorded an assist on a goal by Nicholson in the Yukon’s first game against the N.W.T. on Monday, and caught the eye of at least one national team scout, said Bouchard.

“She’s an awesome little hockey player,” the coach said. “She held her own and didn’t miss a beat.”

In the Yukon net, 12-year-old Maya Oakley – Sierra Oakley’s sister – faced a tournament-high 173 shots in five games, making 139 saves for a .803 save percentage.