PORTLAND – Peter Delmas always figured he’d make history with a shutout streak, or with a great goals-against average or save percentage.

Delmas became only the second goaltender in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League history to record a goal Saturday, credited with the Lewiston Maineiacs’ third goal of the game early in the second period.

He’d much rather have earned a victory.

For the second time in as many nights, the Quebec Remparts had a strong third period and a timely power-play goal – this time from Guillaume Monast – and skated off with a 4-3 win over the Maineiacs in front of 2,550 at the Cumberland County Civic Center.

“I’m sure sometime down the road I’ll look back on it and talk about it,” Delmas said, “but right now I could care less about that.”

Delmas’ goal was actually an own-goal, one of the rarest situations in hockey.

With a delayed penalty call coming to Lewiston defenseman Eric Gelinas, Benjamin Breault circled in the Lewiston end, waiting for the extra attacker to join the fray from the bench. His pass back to the point off the boards missed everyone, though, and glided down the still-fresh ice, glancing off the left post of the vacant Quebec cage and into the back of the net.

In a strange twist, Maxim Gougeon of Rimouski, minutes after Delmas earned his goal, scored one of his own in his team’s game against Cape Breton.

In Portland on Saturday, though, Lewiston once again had the Remparts bottled up through two periods, and well into the third.

“We needed to settle down, though,” Maineiacs’ assistant coach Jeff Guay said. “We were panicking a lot. We had a lot of half-boards where we didn’t get the pucks out and that created in-zone problems.”

Mathieu Loisel scored his first goal of the season, seizing firm control of the game for his team.

Loisel’s tally at 7:53 of the third period tied the game at three, and the winning goal came off the stick of Guillaume Monast on the power play — Quebec’s lone power play goal of the game in six chances — with 2:09 to play in the game.

“They were more passive (on the PK),” Roy said. “That helped them a lot. More aggressive against us, that’s what we want. That opens up our lanes.”

The Maineiacs’ coaching staff left the bench fuming, and head coach Ed Harding was unavailable for comment following the game as he drove off in his car.

Part of the reason the staff was upset was the penalty call that gave Quebec its sixth and final power play. Officials whistled Lewiston forward Matt Bourdeau for elbowing on a play in front of the Maineiacs’ bench.

“Usually, elbowing is called on a hit to the head,” Guay said. “Were his hands high? Sure. But the hit was chest to chest, and that was right in front of me.”

The Remparts benefited from six power plays on the night to Lewiston’s two. For the most part, Lewiston’s penalty kill unit was spot on, stuffing the Remparts’ first five opportunities.

“We knew what they were going to do on the power play, we just didn’t make the right adjustments,” Guay said. “Nothing changed. We went through it again, and the boys did a great job this time around.”

Lewiston started off on the right skate when Billy Lacasse waited out a rebound in front of Quebec netminder Charles Lavigne and slid it past the keeper for a 1-0 Lewiston lead just 3:12 into the game.

The Remparts got that one back less than two minutes later when Benjamin Breault fed a streaking Sebastien Trudeau in the middle of the slot. Trudeau fired the puck past Delmas to even the score.

Lewiston took a pair of penalties through the middle part of the period, which slowed its momentum, but on the Maineiacs’ first and only power play of the opening frame, Michael Ward snuck in from the point and scored from the top of the crease on a goalmouth scramble to give Lewiston a 2-1 lead.

Delmas’ goal gave the Maineiacs a 3-1 lead, which Quebec cut to 3-2 at 11:00 of the second on a Jean-Simon Alard strike.

“That put us back in the game,” Roy said. “I thought we dominated the second period; we had 16-5 shots on net, and we had a lot of chances.”

Lewiston returns to action at home Wednesday against Cape Breton, back at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee, at 7 p.m.

Note: In a brief pregame ceremony, the Maineiacs honored Paul Evans and Watne Schaab, two former Maine Mariners who played with the team during their back-to-back Calder Cup championship seasons in 1978 and 1979