Don’t look now, but if the Maineiacs aren’t careful, they could fall as far as No. 6 in the Eastern Division.

Lewiston started the weekend tied for fourth with Acadie-Bathurst, which is right now, easily the hottest team in the league. The Titan dismantled Halifax 9-3 Friday night to vault into fourth by themselves as the Maineiacs fell 2-1 to St. John’s.

The Titan are now just two back of Cape Breton, with four games to play.

Lewiston, meanwhile, is now two back of Acadie-Bathurst, and right on the Maineiacs’ heels are the Fog Devils. With a win Sunday, St. John’s could pull to within two points of Lewiston for fifth.

“We’re really banged up right now,” St. John’s coach Real Paiement said after Friday’s game. “We’re just hoping to play our best the rest of the season, and we’ll let the standings fall where the will. We need to work on getting healthy for the playoffs.”

One last trip

The Maineiacs on Sunday will host the St. John’s Fog Devils for the final time.

A press conference is scheduled in Verdun, Quebec, on Monday regarding the team and its planned move to the Montreal suburb. Speculation is that the new owners plan to announce the team’s name and some other particulars about the relocating franchise.

Earlier this year, the Dobbin family sold the Fog Devils to a Montreal-based entrepreneur, who announced he would relocate the franchise to Verdun, where a QMJHL team has existed – and failed – at least five times.

Power’s still out

While the team’s penalty-kill continues to rank among the league’s best, the Lewiston Maineiacs’ power play continues to slide.

Through Friday’s games, the Maineiacs were 12th in the 18-team league at 17.3 percent. Three teams are tied for 13th behind them at 17.1 percent.

Head coach Ed Harding tried to look at the upside.

“If you’d have told me from the beginning of the year we’d be around 18 percent without the guys we are missing (David Perron and Eric Castonguay), I would have taken that,” Harding said.