LEWISTON – They’re back.

Stefano Giliati and Stefan Chaput provided plenty of excitement for Lewiston Maineiacs fans last season, scoring multiple short-handed and highlight-reel goals.

It took 10 games this season, but the dynamic duo finally broke out Friday, just in time.

Chaput deflected a pass from Patrick Cusack into the net with 10 seconds to play in regulation to force overtime, and Giliati took a behind-the-back feed from Chaput and dipsy-dooed his way to a goal just 38 seconds into the extra session to lift Lewiston to an improbable 5-4 win over Cape Breton in front of 2,339 at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee.

“I felt the guy on me, and I knew Gili was behind me,” Chaput said. “It was a bit fancy, but there was no shot there for me. I was behind the net after the pass and I saw everything happen It was crazy … In the celebration after the goal, we looked at each other and we said, ‘We’re back.'”

Chaput and Giliati broke out of the Maineiacs’ zone after a quick bit of pressure from the Screaming Eagles. Chaput slipped past his defenseman, saw Giliati coming behind him and fed the puck back. Giliati, handcuffed on his forehand, spun to his right and saw more than a foot of open space between goaltender Paul Dorsey and the right post. His shot on the backhand sailed into the net, and his teammates mobbed him.

“The defense had a good gap on me, so I had no other choice,” Giliati said. “I saw the goalie was out of place, and I’ve done that move before. It worked today, and it paid off.”

The duo had that chamce in the first place thanks to a Cape Breton turnover and a heads up pass.

“We won the faceoff,” Cape Breton coach Pascal Vincent said. “Somebody missed an assignment there. We won the faceoff and the puck should have gotten out, but it didn’t. Winning the faceoff, the puck needs to go out.”

Giliati spun the puck to Patrick Cusack at the point, who looked up, saw Chaput in the right faceoff circle and fed him a slow slapper.

“It was a tip that I’ve been working on with (Maineiacs’ coach) Ed (Harding) all week long,” Chaput said. “Cusack and I made eye contact, and it was a great pass.”

“I lifted up my head and saw pads in front of me,” Cusack said. “I looked a bit to the right and saw Chaput’s stick. It was the perfect play.”

To that point, the Eagles had outplayed the Maineiacs for the better part of the second and third periods. Trailing 2-0 after one, Cape Breton battled back to tie early in the third. Jonathan Laberge potted a goal in the second, and Nick McNeil equalized at 1:43 of the third.

Marc Bourgeois made it 3-2 Lewiston, followed by another Cape Breton goal. The Eagles took their first lead at 17:03 of the final frame on a Robert Slaney goal, setting the stage for the pulled-goalie heroics later in the period.

“We came back strong in the second, and in the third we showed a lot of character to come back in the game,” Vincent said.”

Denis Reul found the scoresheet for the first time this season early in the first period, and David Taylor potted his second of the season just 4:21 later after he stripped the puck from Cape Breton defenseman Kyle Mariani at the point and went in on a 100-foot breakaway. He deked Dorsey to the ice and flipped a backhander past his blocker to put Lewiston ahead 2-0.

The Maineiacs are back on the ice tonight to face the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies at 7.