LEWISTON — Paul Byron didn’t play much in Lewiston during his three years with the Gatineau Olympiques, skating in just three games here.

Friday, he made up for lost time at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee as a member of the Portland Pirates.

Byron, who could have played this season as a 20-year-old for Gatineau in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, netted his fifth and sixth goals of the season for the Pirates in front of 2,245 at the Colisee, helping his squad extend its streak of 11 consecutive games with at least a point earned in a 3-2 shootout loss.

“It’s nice to keep that streak alive, and every point matters, especially against divisional teams,” Byron said. “We’ve been playing hard, getting great goaltending and our defense has been great. We have a healthy team, and we just need to keep going.”

Another former QMJHL star, Brad Marchand, was the hero for Providence, roofing a backhand deke past Patrick Lalime in the fifth round of the shootout to lift his squad to a win.

“Brad’s a tenacious player,” Providence coach Rob Murray said. “He’s one of those guys that gets under the other team’s skin, but he also has some great offensive upside to his game. His game keeps maturing, and that’s why he’s earned some games up in Boston this year, too.”

Byron, a native of Ottawa, played 184 games in the QMJHL over three seasons, scoring 91 goals and adding 120 assists for the Olympiques.

“Our line’s been doing really well lately,” Byron said. “We don’t always show up on the stat sheet, but it was one of those games, and it was bound to happen.”

Trent Whitfield, who scored his share of memorable goals for the Portland Pirates through the early part of this decade, put his Providence Bruins on top 2-1 early in the third.

Whitfield, who played parts of seven seasons for Portland and recorded 102 goals and 255 points for the Pirates, got his stick on a blast from the point by Andy Wozniewski and tipped it by Lalime at 2:46 of the period.

With a pair of streaks on the line, Byron struck for his second at 11:05 of the third, roofing the puck over Kevin Regan, the former UNH standout, on a short-side shot from the bottom of the right circle.

Down from Buffalo on a conditioning assignment, Patrick Lalime was tested early in the Pirates’ net, with the Bruins outshooting Portland 11-3 in the opening frame. Early in the period, Lalime was forced into action when Jeff LoVecchio corralled a rink-wide feed at the left circle and rifled a wrister on the former QMJHL star. Lalime moved deftly from left to right to make the pad save.

Early in the second, Lalime again stretched the legs, this time shifting from right to left to prevent a goal on the Bruins’ 19th shot on net.

“The game itself doesn’t change from a goalie’s standpoint,” Lalime said. “It’s more the talk with the defensemen, but the rest, it’s pretty much the same. I just had to stand my ground and make the saves I needed to make.”

In the meantime, Byron gave the Pirates the lead. He found the puck on his stick to Regan’s left after Kyle Wanvig poked it through a crowd at the top of the crease. Byron spun from the bottom of the right circle and lofted the puck past Regan. For Byron, it was his second career goal at the Colisee, the first coming in his 17-year-old season with the Olympiques.

The Bruins reacted quickly as Johnny Boychuk blasted the water bottle off the cage behind Lalime on a feed from former Moncton Wildcat Matt Marquardt with Providence on the power play.

“He deserved to make the Boston Bruins this year. He was their seventh guy and he just wasn’t getting the game time,” Murray said. “It’s a good opportunity for our organization to get him down here and get him into game shape a little bit.”

The teams traded shots and power plays through the rest of the middle period, but neither team could solve the other’s keeper.

Portland and Providence will tussle again Saturday at the Cumberland County Civic Center.