The Home Hardware Midget AAA Legionnaires moved to 6-3 on the season after a 6-5 OT win over the Saskatoon Contacts Thursday night at Schroh Arena in the 'Bridge City'.

The Legionnaires trailed 2-1 after the first 20 minutes, with forward Owen Ozar scoring the first goal of what would be a big night for the Prince Albert product.

Ozar answered again 35 seconds into the second period, on an assist from Jagger Prosofsky, and one of three assists from Jacob Piller on the night.

Tied 2-2, the two teams took turns tallying goals in the period, as the Contacts added a power-play goal, before Legionnaires' forwards Rin Beny and Hunter Lamb both buried the puck in the opposition's goal.

Another Saskatoon goal on the man-advantage kept the score evened up at 4-4 going into the final frame.

The third period was held scoreless until the final five minutes, when Ozar completed the hat trick on the night, scoring unassisted to give Swift Current a 5-4 lead.

"Ozar only knows one way to play, and that's very competitively. He's a player that plays the right way," said Legionnaire's head coach Darren Evjen said. "He was voted our captain this week and he showed why all of our guys voted him to be captain by the way he played in a really hard game."

However, an impressive third Contacts' power-play goal with under two minutes left took the game to the extra frame.

There, the Legionnaires came away with the win - with just 20 seconds left, blue-liner Christian Riemer notched the OT-winner.

Goalie Steven Duchscher stopped 31 of 36 shots he faced on the night.

The Legionnaires' overtime record now stands at 2-0 through the season's first nine games.

"We've been good in overtime," said Evjen. "We feel it doesn't matter if there's 20 seconds or three minutes left, we have some good depth that shows in our scoring leaders right now that, when we put guys out, we can be dangerous."

The Legionnaires now have four players with five or more goals on the season, as well as five players averaging at least one point-per-game.

After a 10-2 win over the Contacts in Swift Current's previous game last Sunday and a 6-5 loss to Battlefords the day prior, the Legionnaires now have scored 21 goals through their last three games, and 41 over the season - an average of over 4.5 goals per game. The mark is tops in the Saskatchewan Midget AAA Hockey League, as is their goal differential of +14.

Both stats are certainly welcome news for the Legionnaires head coach, in a time where he says goal-scoring is becoming more and more of a premium.

"That's the real key in a hockey today I think. I said that yesterday in the meetings. It's hard to win 2-1 hockey games for a whole year anymore with the way penalties are called. You have to be able to score to win in hockey today. It shows the strength in our hockey team that we have good depth and scoring. That's what it takes in those games where you maybe don't have your best defending going to win a game 6-5."

The team is off until an October 27 road contest with the Saskatoon Blazers.