LEWISTON – By the way Quebec Remparts coach Eric Lavigne was clapping his hands above his head and twirling his towel following Friday night’s game, it was easy to think that his team had won the game.

What Lavigne was doing, however, was mocking the Lewiston Maineiacs and the refereeing crew. And, of course, Alex Bourret.

Bourret drew a four-minute double minor penalty on Quebec defenseman Evan Shaw just four seconds into overtime after Shaw clipped Bourret below the mouth with his stick. With 2:56 remaining in the extra period, Bourret then fired a puck that knuckled off of a stick and froze Remparts goaltender Jonathan Boutin enough for the puck to get by. Bourret’s power play goal gave the Maineiacs a 2-1 win, their ninth in 12 games and their sixth consecutive win at the Colisee, and also put to rest one of the uglier games of the season in front of 3,294 fans.

“It must have hit something on the way in,” said Bourret. “I shot low and the goalie thought it was going low and started to go down. It went up instead and went right in.”

Despite the win, Maineiacs coach Clem Jodoin wasn’t pleased with the whole game.

“The game didn’t have any flow to it,” said Maineiacs coach Clem Jodoin. “There was a 5-on-4 for them or for us all the time. There were so many penalties in the first and in the second. This is not how I want to see my boys play. I like physical play, but I do not like all the hitting with the sticks.”

Lavigne turned away from local reporters after the game, saying only “I don’t have any comments” as he waved his hand toward the door.

On Tuesday, Lewiston and Quebec played a tight game at the Colisee Pepsi in Quebec during which Bourret received a penalty for slashing Jordan Lavallee in the hand. Lavallee is now out for three to four weeks with a broken hand and the team sent a video tape of the incident to the league. On Friday, the league handed down a decision that no further action would be taken against Bourret.

The stick work and extra hitting began almost immediately Friday, with the teams combining for eight power plays in the first 20 minutes.

“I like the way we play 5-on-5,” said Jodoin. “We are very good at 5-on-5. They had 12 shots on goal in the second period, for example, and only two of them, I think, were at 5-on-5.”

Part of the Maineiacs’ recent success comes from the play of Jaroslav Halak between the pipes. After getting the first star for a 40-plus save performance in Quebec on Tuesday, Halak turned aside 25 shots, several of them quality shots, in earning second-star honors Friday.

“He is a key player for this team,” said Jodoin. “He made some big saves, some key saves tonight.”

The Remparts got on the board first, connecting on their first power play opportunity just 5:28 into the game when Michael Tessier tipped home a perfect tic-tac play from Karl Gagne and Josh Hennessy.

From there, the Lewiston defense clamped down.

“Right off the game plan was to be defensive,” said Maineiacs’ defenseman Brandon Roach. “We only had five defensemen tonight, so we were getting pretty tired.”

Bobby Gates was a late scratch after suffering an injury late in the game in Quebec on Tuesday.

Roach evened the score at 18:45 of the opening frame when he lobbed a wrist shot toward the net. The puck banged off of a defender and trickled through Boutin’s pads for the goal.

“We were trying to let a rocket go,” said Roach. “We had a few chances at it, but I guess it was the soft one that got through.”

The teams played two even yet penalty-laden periods of scoreless hockey from there, with Lewiston killing off a total of 10 Remparts power plays in the three regulation periods. Lewiston, by contrast, had just six, but made the last one count.

“This is big for us in that we are getting better in our division,” said Jodoin. “We had a good record against the other two divisions, but we were not doing well in our own division. Now we are starting to play better there, too.”

Lewiston squares off against the Val d’Or Foreurs at the Colisee tonight at 7 p.m.