LEWISTON — Who else but Etienne Brodeur?

Arguably the hottest goal-scorer in the Canadian Hockey League — and the leading goal-scorer across all three CHL leagues — Brodeur fanned on a potential game-winning one-timer on a 2-on-0 late in overtime.

Given another chance less than a minute later, he didn’t miss.

Brodeur snuck behind the Baie-Comeau defense, caught a feed from Jess Tanguy in stride at the red line and beat Drakkar goalie Alexandre Alain-Rajotte with a five-hole deke to lift the Lewiston Maineiacs to a 3-2 come-from-behind, overtime victory, extending their win streak to eight games.

“They just got a 2-on-1 on the other side,” Brodeur said. “I was really hoping they didn’t score. They missed, it rimmed around and I got the breakaway.”

If the move he used to beat Alain-Rajotte appeared familiar to the 1,702 in attendance Sunday, it wasn’t a coincidence.

“At the beginning I didn’t know (I was going 5-hole) either,” Brodeur said. “I tried the same move I tried against (Quebec goalie Louis) Domingue, but on the forehand.”

Teammates mobbed Brodeur along the boards to Alain-Rajotte’s left. Thirty feet away, dejection filled the faces in the Baie-Comeau bench. While Lewiston celebrated its eighth win in a row, the Drakkar suffered a 23rd consecutive defeat.

“We missed a couple or three breakaways, and we had control of the game,” Baie-Comeau coach Mario Pouliot said. “We had a great chance to bounce back today after a bad game (Saturday), but we didn’t do enough to win the game. We took the Maineiacs away to the outside and we blocked a lot of shots, too. But they scored a goal with (48 seconds) left. We didn’t stay in our structure, we pressed a little bit too hard and then we made too big a mistake against Brodeur.”

In the pile of players, none were likely as happy as Antoine Bibeau. A fifth-round draft pick by the Maineiacs in this year’s entry draft, the 16-year-old netminder made his first career Quebec Major Junior Hockey League start Sunday after relieving starter Nick Champion in Saturday’s 6-1 blowout victory.

“It’s pretty incredible right now,” Bibeau said following the game. “I was very happy and it was great to see Brodeur finish it like that.”

Bibeau stopped 26 of 28 shots to earn his first win.

“We gave him the player of the game tonight, because if it wasn’t for him, we probably lose this game,” Maineiacs’ coach J.F. Houle said. “We gave up four breakaways in the second period, and he saved all four. That gave us a little bit of hope. He did what Champion’s been doing all year, he made the key saves and kept us in the game.”

Things didn’t begin well for the Maineiacs. After a lackluster opening frame, the Drakkar improbably hit the scoreboard first. Facing a fourth penalty kill in the opening period, Pierre-Alexandre Ouellet fed Jean-Philippe Caron up the right boards with time running out. Crossing the blue line, Caron glided to the top of the right circle and snapped a shot that beat Bibeau.

Originally called a goal on the ice, officials had to review the goal to be sure it crossed the goal line before time had expired in the first period.

It had, with two-tenths of a second to spare, giving the Drakkar a 1-0 advantage.

“I heard the buzzer, but the goal was counted,” Houle said. “It’s tough for the momentum. It was pretty quiet in the locker room.”

Lewiston’s struggles on the power play continued in the second, though the penalty-kill remained a strength.

The teams traded minor penalties sporadically throughout an otherwise dreadful period of hockey. Neither team developed any sort of rhythm, players couldn’t connect with each other with any regularity in the passing game, and neither offense could generate a wealth of shots.

The crowd roared briefly to life late in the frame when Sam Carrier blasted the puck over Alain-Rajotte’s shoulder and clanged it off the left post. The Drakkar flew back down the ice and did the same with a shot past Bibeau that ricocheted off the crossbar.

“When it’s two games in two nights, and then you win 6-1 in the first game, the guys come out and think maybe it will be easy,” Brodeur said.

Lewiston’s power play snapped an 0-for-21 slump 3:45 into the third period when Michael Chaput curled into the right circle from the corner and sniped the short side corner over Alain-Rajotte’s glove to even the mark at 1-1.

Late in the period, though, Danick Malouin gave the Drakkar hope when his slapper from the right side hit Olivier Dame-Malka’s stick and trickled across the line behind a helpless Bibeau.

The deficit again appeared to spark the home team.

“Playing from behind, it can add that spark,” Houle said. “We should be playing like that all game.”

With Bibeau on the bench for an extra skater in the final minute of regulation, Zachary Evans-Renaud recovered from a bad pinch at the right point and rifled a slap shot past Alain-Rajotte on assists from Michael Chaput and Kirill Kabanov with 49 seconds to spare.

It wasn’t pretty, Houle said, but it was still a win.

“I didn’t think we played great tonight,” Houle said. “It was a lot of little things. We tried to do too much, we didn’t shoot, tried to do the extra move, didn’t get the pucks deep. Our message was, just find a way to win. That’s what good teams do. It’s not always pretty, but they find ways to win. And I thought we did that.”

Lewiston hits the road for a three-in-three swing next weekend, beginning in Quebec on Friday. The Maineiacs travel to Shawinigan on Saturday, and back to Quebec for a Sunday matinee.

The team next skates at home twice surrounding the Thanksgiving holiday, first on Wednesday, Nov. 24, against Chicoutimi and then on Friday, Nov. 26, against Moncton.