Fatigue would be an easy excuse for Lewiston Maineiacs head coach Clem Jodoin to offer. The team has, after all, played three games in four nights in three different cities.

The Baie-Comeau Drakkar were faster, smarter and flat out better than the Maineiacs on Friday night, and took from the game at the Centre Henry-Leonard a 5-1 victory over Lewiston.

“It was a bad, bad performance, and I have no excuses,” said Jodoin. “We made bad decisions, with and without the puck. I’m not even factoring in the other team right now, the Xs and Os. I’m talking about our own game. We can’t make the first pass. We are making terrible decisions the last three games.”

The loss is the Maineiacs’ second in five games on their season-opening six-game road swing. Baie-Comeau improves to 5-1.

“Mentally, we are a fragile, fragile team right now,” said Jodoin. “We are not moving the puck at all. We will have to watch the tape overnight and talk about it (today) before the game.”

Just 3:40 into the game, Baie-Comeau captain Alexandre Picard-Hooper put the home team ahead 1-0. At the 16:04 mark of the same period, Benjamin Breault potted his second of the season to put the Drakkar up 2-0.

Francois Bouchard scored the Drakkar’s third of the night just 54 seconds into the second period to up the ante to 3-0.

“I thought we even had a chance in the third,” said Jodoin, “but then we gave up the goal on our power play.”

Charles-Antoine Messier took advantage of a Lewiston miscue and tallied a short-handed goal less than a minute into the final frame to put Baie-Comeau ahead 4-0, and Bouchard sniped his second of the night at 2:26 to put the game away. David Perron scored his fourth of the season late in the third to thwart Michael Dupont’s shutout bid. Dupont made 30 saves in the win, while Maineiacs’ netminder Jonathan Bernier stopped 30 of the 35 shots he faced and took his second loss of the season.

Lewiston finishes its lengthy road trip this afternoon in Chicoutimi against the Sagueneens, who fell 6-3 at Drummondville on Friday night.