It wasn’t another shutout, but it was another gem of a game by Adrien Lemay.

The 19-year-old Lewiston Maineiacs netminder stopped 40 of 41 shots in regulation and overtime, and he stopped two of three shootout opportunities to lead his team to a 2-1 win over the Telus West-leading Gatineau Olympiques at the Robert-Guertin Centre in Gatineau on Friday.

“We set a goal after I got here to win five road games, after winning only five to that point,” Lewiston coach Don MacAdam said. “We’re at four-and-a-half now.”

Lemay, MacAdam said, made all of the difference.

“It wasn’t just that he made the saves,” MacAdam said. “He made some spectacular saves at big moments in the game. And I think he, and the rest of the team in front of him, they’re learning how to win.”

The win lifts the Maineiacs to 21-39-1-1, giving Lewiston 44 points. The team is battling Baie-Comeau, Halifax and Val d’Or for one of two remaining playoff spots. Halifax lost in a shootout Friday, while Baie-Comeau fell in regulation. Val d’Or was idle.

The win temporarily lifts the Maineiacs into 15th overall in the league standings, one ahead of Val d’Or and Baie-Comeau (43), and three ahead of Halifax (41). But the Foreurs have a game in hand on Lewiston, while the Drakkar have two.

“That’s good to hear,” MacAdam said, learning the news for the first time himself.

While Lemay has been solid since joining the Maineiacs, it was an unlikely hero that kept the team in the shootout.

Slovakian Filip Janosik, who’d scored one goal all season in 43 games played, shot first, and beat Gatineau keeper Maxime Clermont with a nifty backhand move to the blocker side, roofing the puck off the back bar of the cage.

“That wasn’t even my pick,” McAdam admitted. “I looked down the bench and asked, ‘Who’s shooting?’ (Max) Gratchev wanted to go second, and Billy Lacasse said, ‘Filip goes first.'”

When he found out Janosik had scored just once all season, MacAdam sounded shocked.

“Billy must have had a Ouija board or something,” MacAdam said with a laugh. “He made a great move.”

After the Olympiques’ Alex Quesnel evened the shootout at one, Billy Lacasse stuffed his deke through Clermont’s legs on the Maineiacs’ third attempt to seal the victory.

Lewiston looked like it might escape with its second 1-0 win in three road games after and early Pier-Olivier Morin goal staked the team to that advantage. Lemay held the fort through the second and nearly through the third before Vincent Barnard struck for his first of the season at 12:08 of the final frame to knot the score at 1-1.

Lewiston and Gatineau will lock horns again Saturday, and the Maineiacs will finish off a three-games-in-three-nights weekend with a 4 p.m. matinee in Montreal on Sunday.