AUBURN – Just an average night for Lewiston High School hockey.

The Blue Devils finished their friendly, opening-month Class A schedule with the usual flourish Wednesday, routing Edward Little, 10-1, at Ingersoll Arena.

Scratch the extra digits to the right of the decimal point in the “against” category, and that score represents the precise, mean margin of victory in Lewiston’s seven straight wins to start the winter.

“I’m glad that’s over,” said Lewiston coach Norm Gagne. “Now we’re in the meat of the schedule, and this is what we wanted, anyway. Now we can go out and get tested and learn from our games. Whether we win or lose, we’ll know where we stand.”

Lewiston encounters time-honored nemesis St. Dom’s on Saturday night. Brunswick, Falmouth, Scarborough, Portland, Brewer and Waterville immediately follow.

That’s a far cry from what the reigning Eastern Class A champions have encountered so far – stern tests at the Maine High School Hockey Invitational excluded. Not surprisingly, the Devils are using that perception to keep their fire stoked.

“We don’t really get much credit, anyway, right now, but we want to keep it going and show teams that we’re for real,” said senior Jon Roy. “The East doesn’t really get much credit compared to Biddeford and Falmouth and teams like that, but we’re going to change that this year.”

Seventy goals have added up to somebody different notching the hat trick every night. Against the Red Eddies, It was Roy and Casey Poussard’s turn.

Poussard produced four goals, inflating his team-leading total to 15, along with four assists. Roy supplemented his three goals with two assists. The third link in their incendiary line, Jordan Bourgoin, settled for a single goal but set up four others.

“That’s the key with them,” Gagne said. “That’s why they’re all in the top of the scoring in the league. It’s because they’re willing to share the puck.”

Lewiston exhibits the same community effort between the pipes, where three goalies have split the seven victories.

Alex Lafreniere fell five minutes, 11 seconds shy of his third consecutive shutout, permitting only a power-play goal by EL’s Matt Reed.

“My team never, never, never gave up, and that’s what I asked of them,” said EL coach Craig Latuscha, whose squad started three freshmen and a sophomore in dropping to 3-5. “They stayed out of the penalty box and played disciplined. They continued to play the body and made them work for all the goals they got.”

Only two of Lewiston’s goals came on the power play, but Poussard got the Devils started with a breakaway to stifle an EL 5-on-3 in the first period.

Poussard poked away the puck at the opposite blue line and left two EL defenders chasing a vapor trail as he walked in alone on Eddies goalie Rich Belanger.

“That was a gift. They gave it to the wrong guy, too,” Gagne said. “Poussard’s been doing really well finishing off. He did the same thing in Bangor with a short-handed one.”

Matt Letourneau and Sam Cloutier also scored for Lewiston.