The regular season winning-streak stays in the single digits for the Home Hardware Midget AAA Legionnaires after it was snapped last night.

Carrying an eight-game streak into a road tilt with the Regina Pat Canadians, the Legionnaires were doubled up 6-3.

The Pat Canadians jumped out to the early lead in front of the home crowd at The Co-operators Centre with a pair of goals 4:20 and 6:10 into the game.

"We didn't have a great start in a sense," said Darren Evjen, head coach of the Legionnaires. "We turned pucks over, and we were a little bit all over the map for that. We got down 2-0, so that kind of put us in a hole."

However, Swift was able to get on the board and cut the deficit to just one on a Kersey Reich power-play goal to carry a 2-1 score into the first intermission.

The Legionnaires managed to tie the game up in the second period as second-consecutive power play goal, this time off the stick of Owen Ozar, locked the two teams at 2-2. Although, in the second half of the middle frame, the Pat Canadians put together three goals.

The first, to take a 3-2 lead, came with 6:52 left and the second unanswered came on the power play at the 4:33 mark.

Swift Current was able to jump back up to a one-goal deficit again just 1:11 later on Hunter Lamb's 19th goal of the season, but Regina answered back just 26 seconds for a 5-3 lead through 40 minutes.

"The reality of it is they stayed to a gameplan and we really throughout the game were a little bit all over the map," Evjen admitted. "Our D and our forwards - we just didn't have a great follow-through in our gameplan and that's what cost us in the end."

Regina added an empty-net for the lone third-period goal to take the 6-3 victory.

After defeated the Pat Canadians 4-2 on home ice at the Innovation Credit Union iPlex on January 14, the Legionnaires fell short of executing that same formula against a steady Regina team.

"Well they're very consistent in their game, and that's the one thing about them - their game doesn't vary a whole bunch, they're very dedicated to how they play," Evjen said of the Pat Canadians. "When you don't put in a 60-minute consistent game, they're probably going to win - that's what happened to us last night."

The win streak the Legionnaires carried into last night was started back on December 12 in a 7-5 win at home against the Notre Dame Argos.

Over the eight games the Legionnaires out-scored opponents 35-16 split over six home games and two on the road.

Looking big picture though, the loss was something the team needed, according to their head coach.

"A loss really gets guys paying attention to what they need to do to be successful as individuals and as a team," Evjen explained. "A lot of times when you get going on a long winning streak like that, slowly the lug-nuts start loosening in little areas in your game. That's what happened to us, and you can see it in practice, and in games."

"What we really need to do as a group is get back on the same page and have a couple of good practices here and be ready for a tough weekend on the road," he added.

Now with just ten games remaining in the 2017-18 regular season, the Legionnaires are back on the road for a pair of games this weekend.

The first of which is against the Beardys Blackhawks, a team the Legionnaires defeated 7-1 during their winning streak as shown above.

"Well Beardys is similar to Regina, they just don't have as many high-end players. What they'll do is they'll play a good team game. We beat them a pretty good score last time, but we scored on a lot of odd chances and that was the difference - it wasn't like we totally dominated them. It's a smaller rink up there, it'll be a tough game to play. We've got to make sure that we're ready to play the right way to give ourselves a chance to win."

Puck drop is 6 p.m. in Saturday's contest between the Legionnaires (21-10-0-3) and Blackhawks (11-17-2-2).

Swift Current then heads west on Sunday for a 2 p.m. game against the Battlefords Stars (13-20-0-1).