Twelve-hour trip? No problem.

Broken glass during warm-ups and a 20-minute delay to start the game? Piece of cake.

Captain Marc-Andre Cliche out after less than four minutes with a serious injury? OK, that one may sting for a while.

But on Saturday night, none of that seemed to phase the Lewiston Maineiacs.

Hard-hitting, 16-year-old rookie Danick Hudon-Paquette and 20-year-old tough guy Triston Manson scored 26 seconds apart in the third period to nail down a 5-2 victory for the Lewiston Maineiacs over the St. John’s Fog Devils at Mile One Stadium in front of 2,932 spectators.

“Everyone has been playing, and they’re playing well,” said Maineiacs coach Clem Jodoin.

“We have no choice, with six games in nine nights. We still didn’t play the way we could have, but I will never be satisfied.”

Dampening the mood for the Maineiacs, though, was Cliche’s injury in the first period. Trainers from both teams helped Cliche off the ice, and the fallen captain did not return after falling awkwardly into the boards.

“He fell on his nose,” said Jodoin. “He went to lift the weak stick of the other player, lost his balance and fell on his nose. He was dizzy. He is still dizzy, so he will not play (today). After that, we will see.”

On a brighter note, the Maineiacs reached 10 wins Saturday in just 14 games, the fastest the team has reached 10 wins in four years. It took Lewiston 27 games to reach 10 wins in 2003, 22 in 2004 and 24 games last season.

“We still want to play better,” said Jodoin, “but this is good for the team, for sure.”

Pierre-Luc Faubert got things rolling in the first period, on a rejuvenated Lewiston power play. Chad Denny fired a booming shot from the point, and the puck bounced off the crossbar behind St. John’s netminder Ilia Ejov, right to Faubert. The Maineiacs’ 20-year-old forward slapped the puck into an open net to put his team ahead 1-0.

Lewiston went up 2-0 at 11:27 of the second as Stefan Chaput pounded home his own rebound after a pass from Stefano Giliati, and David Perron buried his team-leading ninth at 15:26 to put the Maineiacs ahead 3-0.

Lewiston put itself behind the 8-ball late in the second when Michal Korenko and Kevin Marshall took penalties six seconds apart, giving the Fog Devils an extended 5-on-3. The home team failed to score at the end of the second and into the third.

The Fog Devils did get on the board later in the third, though, to spoil Bernier’s shutout bid. Mario Kempe fired a shot that eluded the Maineiacs’ netminder at 8:53 of the third to cut the deficit to two.

Hudon-Paquette and Manson lit the lamp with their pair of goals at 11:22 and 11:48, respectively.

The goal was Manson’s first of the regular season. He scored four times in the preseason.

Nicolas Bachand tallied a power-play goal with less than three minutes to play to cap the scoring. The same two teams square off this afternoon in St. John’s at 2:30 p.m.