LEWISTON – For what it could have been, Saturday’s nightcap of a local hockey doubleheader was, in the least, entertaining.

At worst, it was a glimpse of the way things used to be in the Twin Cities, before Edward Little made its way into the pantheon of state title holders in the infancy of the current decade.

St. Dom’s received goals from seven different players and ruined a solid, 38-save performance by EL keeper Adam Loudermilk to post a 7-0 shutout over the Red Eddies at the Colisee.

The win is the Saints’ third in a row after they fell below .500 at the end of last week, lifting their record to 8-6.

“This is the second time we win three in a row this season, but first in the league,” St. Dom’s coach John Pleau said. “This hopefully gives us some momentum with our big home-and-home with Falmouth this week.”

Despite Edward Little’s struggles this season, one of the brighter spots has been Loudermilk.

“Our goalie played well tonight,” EL coach Craig Latuscha said. “Our team played well in spurts, but we need to find a way to put a whole game together.”

The Saints asserted themselves early, dominating the first period territorially.

Richard Paradis scored two minutes into the game on a feed from Casey Parker, and Paradis returned the favor at 6:37, setting up Parker’s goal to make it 2-0.

St. Dom’s continued to pound Loudermilk with shots, while Edward Little had a few of its own, though most of them came from outside the circles.

“We implemented a new forecheck tonight, too,” Pleau said. “We intercepted quite a few breakout passes and kept them pretty well off-balance.”

C.J. Bergeron made it 3-0 at 12:41 of the first with a shot along the ice that missed four people in front – including Loudermilk – and found the back of the net.

Loudermilk wrote his own story in the second. By the time a minute had ticked off the clock, he’d made six saves.

The seventh shot made it through, though, a softie off the stick of Andrew Gwarjanski that froze Loudermilk as it slid past him.

From there, though, the Saints didn’t even get a sniff of the twine. Loudermilk stopped the next nine he faced in the period to keep the Saints in sight.

“A good goalie on a hot night can kill your momentum,” Pleau said.

At the end of the second, EL thought it scored a goal when the puck slid past Wiley, but officials ruled the puck hit the post – not the pad just inside the post – and caromed out into the middle of the slot.

“A couple bounces here and there, who knows,” Latuscha said. “Things change, momentum changes like that.”

The Saints added three more in the third to salt the game away, getting goals from Alex Parker, Trevar Haefele and Ben Randall.