Max Gratchev is talented enough to score three goals in a game every time out. Peter Delmas can make 31 saves in his sleep, and coming from two goals down in the third period happens all the time at various levels of hockey.

So to pin all of these successes on the Lewiston Maineiacs’ new coach just one game into his tenure with the team might seem a bit much.

Or it’s just plain coincidence.

Gratchev notched two of his three goals in the third period and Delmas stopped all 10 shots he saw in that frame as the Maineiacs broke out of an 0-for-11 slump on the road with a 4-3 come-from-behind win over the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies in front of 1,954 at the Dave Keon Arena on Friday.

“We certainly made it interesting,” Maineiacs’ coach Don MacAdam said. “To take nothing away from Rouyn-Noranda, the goals they got were, in my opinion, mistakes on our side, and the goals we got were from hard work and creativity.”

Delmas held the fort in the final frame as he and the team endured a late penalty to Gratchev for clearing the puck over the glass in the defensive zone.

“We really needed him in the second half of the third period, and he was sensational,” MacAdam said. “He was strong, he was square to the puck, and he covered a lot of the net.”

Gratchev was instrumental in the team’s success all night, though. He scored the Maineiacs’ first goal, a second-period strike that cut the Huskies’ lead to 2-1. He scored a power-play goal on a highlight-reel move in the low slot to tie the game at 3-3 in the third, and his breakaway goal less than two minutes later put the Maineiacs in front for the first time – and for good.

“He was head and shoulders above everybody else on the ice,” MacAdam said. “When I had a chance to watch the team last week, when Max cranked it up, there was nobody out there who could play with him.”

The Huskies got on the board first in a lackluster first period for Lewiston. Jeff Desjardins and Pier-Luc Giguere staked their team to a 2-0 lead after one.

Gratchev’s first pulled Lewiston within one, but Desjardins notched his second of the game with two seconds to play in the second to reestablish Rouyn-Noranda’s two-goal edge.

Lewiston will skate into Val d’Or on Saturday for a 7 p.m. showdown, and returns to Lewiston for a Tuesday meeting with Drummondville.