A 7-1 Sunday home win over the Beardys Blackhawks helped the Home Hardware Midget AAA Legionnaires head into the Christmas break on a high note.

Despite the six-goal margin of victory, the Legionnaires and Blackhawks were tied 1-1 through the first 29 minutes of the game.

Reed Jacobson scored for Swift in the first period, and Beardys answered with 22 seconds remaining in the period on a Griffen Ryden powerplay goal.

The scoring broke open in the second period on a trio of powerplay goals and one even-strength for the Legionnaires.

Hunter Lamb scored nine minutes into the period on the power play, Reed Jacobson scored his second of the game on the man-advantage six minutes later, and 40 seconds after that Jacob Piller notched a powerplay goal of his own.

Up 4-1, the Legionnaires captain gave his team a more comfortable four-goal lead just 48 seconds after Piller's goal as well.

Piller and Rin Beny both added goals in the third period to keep the game out of reach in favour of the home team.

Steven Duchscher stopped 33 of 34 shots in net for the Legionnaires, and seven skaters had multi-point games in what was a complete team effort, according to head coach Darren Evjen.

"I really liked our game again. I thought we were good on offence, defensively we were good off the puck - we played a strong game," he said. "Our 5-on-5 was good today and our special teams were good today. Our power play got some goals for us and our penalty-kill was good."

Piller led the way offensively with four points (2 G, 2 A), and was followed closely by Owen Ozar (1 G, 2 A), Reed Jacobson (2 G), Rin Beny (1 G, 1 A), Hunter Lamb (1 G, 1 A), Mkyllan Couture (2 A), and Ty Muench (2 A).

The win brings the Legionnaires record to 4-0-1-0 in the past five games, as they have climbed back up the Sask Midget AAA Hockey League (SMAAAHL) standings.

"You generate good offence off good defence, and that's kind of where we've been going with our team in the last five games," Evjen said. "Going into Christmas it was important for us to keep moving up the standings, collect points, and be ready for Calgary - that's the biggest thing. We finished off the way we wanted to."

Heading into Boxing Day's Mac's Midget AAA Tournament, the Legionnaires have a 16-9-0-3 record and sit in fifth place in the SMAAAHL.

"My first two years we had a losing record, but this year it's looking like a winning record - I love it," said Lamb after a strong finish ahead of the Christmas break.

The Legionnaires open the Mac's tournament against the Calgary Buffaloes in their first year at the annual tournament since 2003.

"The biggest thing when you go to these events is you take it in, but you have to go there to win it. That's a real difference," Evjen said. "Our group's going there and we've got to be careful we're not just going there to enjoy it - we'll enjoy it, but we've got to go there to win it."