We thoroughly deserved such a resounding result - our biggest ever victory over Aberdeen – as we moved fifth in the league table.
Josh Campbell was the architect of the victory grabbing a hat-trick, whilst Elie Youan, Kevin Nisbet and Will Fish scored the others.
A miserable day for the visitors was compounded in the closing moments by a red card show to defender Liam Scales.
Boss Lee Johnson made four changes from last weekend with Paul Hanlon and Fish returning at the heart of our defence, Joe Newell into midfield and Harry McKirdy up top.
Striker Nisbet was on the bench following a slight knee injury, where he was joined by four academy youngsters – Murray Johnson, Oscar MacIntyre, Josh O’Connor and Ethan Laidlaw.
We started positively and put Aberdeen under intense early pressure with Joe Lewis having to save bravely at the feet of Youan and McKIrdy in the opening moments.
On six minutes Aiden McGeady drifted away from his marker before sending a dipping shot just over Lewis’s crossbar.
There was no let up on the early onslaught and terrific footwork from McKirdy allowed him to get in behind his marker and find Chris Cadden with a low cut back. The fullback struck a low right foot drive towards the far bottom corner that was hooked away by Anthony Stewart just in front of goal.
A goal was coming and it duly arrived on ten minutes when Youan’s angled shot was brilliantly pushed away by Lewis, however he could do nothing about Campbell’s follow up as the midfielder swept the rebound home.
Four minutes later we doubled our advantage as Newell’s corner kick found Campbell 14-yards out and he bulleted a diving header beyond Lewis to grab a quickfire double.
Aberdeen appeared shellshocked and it took until the 25th minute for them to muster an attack of note and even then, Matty Kennedy’s shot from the edge of the box was over David Marshall’s crossbar.
The Dons had a better chance on the half hour when Graeme Shinnie did brilliantly to dink the ball over Fish to set up a shooting chance, only for Campbell to step in and poke the ball away from him as he set himself to shoot.
Aberdeen had a spell of pressure on our goal going into the half-time break winning a handful of corner kicks that came to nothing as defended stoutly.
Then, seconds before the interval we added a third goal. Again, it came from a Newell delivery from the corner kick, and this time it was guided into the Dons net by the head of Youan, who notched a goal to cap off a sensational first half performance from the attacker.
Understandably, there was not the same push to drive forward from us after the break as we comfortably controlled the second half.
We were still the likelier to score next and almost did so when Newell released McKirdy, who held the ball up brilliantly before laying it into the path of Youan, and his powerful shot was well saved by Lewis.
The visitors had a good chance to pull once back on 65 minutes however Scales was unable to keep his effort down and headed over from Roberts’ corner kick delivery.
Substitute Nisbet had only been on the field a matter of minutes when he was put through on goal by a wonderful through ball from Campbell; the Scotland striker held his nerve and calmly slotted it away past the onrushing Lewis.
Youngsters O’Connor and MacIntyre were given the final twenty minutes and they played their part as we overwhelmed Aberdeen to grab two more goals in the closing stages.
On 85 minutes O'Connor was pulled down in the box by Scales after turning away from the defender. Referee Craig Napier awarded the spot kick and Scales was given a second yellow card of the afternoon before the subsequent red.
Campbell took the kick and calmly sent Lewis the wrong way to complete his hat-trick and continue his remarkable goal scoring streak against the Dons.
In the first of three added minutes we grabbed a sixth and final goal when Fish powerfully headed in from another set piece delivery, this time from Campbell, to round off a fine performance from the youngster.
Hibernian: Marshall, Cadden (MacIntyre 76’), Hanlon, Fish, Stevenson, Newell (O’Connor 76’), Campbell, Jeggo, McGeady (Nisbet 68’), McKirdy (Miller 72’), Youan. Substitutes not used: Johnson, Cabraja, Jair, Henderson, MacIntyre, O’Connor, Laidlaw.
Aberdeen: Lewis, McCrorie, Scales, Stewart, Hayes (Myslovic 82’), Clarkson (Coulson 60’), Shinnie (Barron 82’), Ramadani, Kennedy (Roberts 60’), Miovski (Duncan 82’), Duk. Substitutes not used: Ritchie, Watkins, Polvara, Marshall.
Referee: Craig Napier.
Attendance: 16,671.