LEWISTON — There is, apparently, nothing like the feel of a cold puck against your leg.

In the waning seconds of Sunday’s tilt between Lewiston and Quebec, with the Remparts down a goal, on a power play and in control in the Maineiacs’ zone, forward Jonathan Audy-Marchessault pumped his fists in the air and began to celebrate.

But the red light never came on. After a brief conference, the officials on the ice declared no goal, and a video review confirmed it.

On the ice, Lewiston goalie Adrien Lemay already knew.

“It was in my pad,” Lemay said. “The puck was in my pad, and I could feel it. I played with (Audy-Marchessault) in midgets, and I knew it wasn’t in because I could feel it, so I told him to stop celebrating.”

Fifty-three seconds later, after another handful of saves from the 20-year-old backstop, Matt Boyle fired the puck 175 feet down the ice and into an open net to clinch a 4-2 win for the Maineiacs over the visiting Remparts in front of 2,056 at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee.

“It feels good to win,” Lewiston coach J.F. Houle said. “Adrien was solid again, he’s been very good for us. I wasn’t happy after the first and second periods, even though we were winning. I wasn’t happy with the effort. They came back with authority and it was a good end to the game.”

 Already on top 2-1, Lewiston scored its lone power play goal on 10 chances in the second to go on top 3-1.

With former Maineiacs Danick Paquette and Patrick Cusack in the penalty box, Michael Chaput registered his team-leading 23rd goal of the season 32 seconds into the man advantage on a rebound in front of Quebec keeper Louis Domingue to give the Maineiacs some breathing room.

“It was a little bit of a lucky goal,” Chaput said. “It was a nice play with (Matthew) Bissonette and (Billy) Lacasse, and the puck bounced off of Billy’s skate right to me and I put it in.”

It took Ryan Bourque, son of legendary Boston Bruins defenseman Ray Bourque, less than two minutes to again pull his squad within a goal when he stuffed home a feed from  Marchessault short side at the right post.

Lewiston’s defense, which includes former Quebec defender Sam Carrier, held from there.

“That feels really good,” Carrier said.

It was Quebec with the early surge, and with an early power play, it appeared the Remparts were going to put the Maineiacs away quickly. Lemay made a spectacular stop with the back of his leg after a series of passes and shots caught him off guard and out of position. He lunged, back to the play, from right to left and kicked the puck away.

“I knew where the puck was going to be coming from, it was the only way I was going to get over there,” Lemay said.

On the heels of that man advantage, Etienne St. Germain put the visitors on top by a goal at 6:46 with a rocket shot from the high slot, set up by Ryan Bourque’s weaving through the crowd in the left circle and high slot.

The Maineiacs evened things up on one of the wackier goals this season at the Colisee. Francis Beauvillier drove the left side and curled behind the net. He centered the puck through traffic, Cameron Critchlow tracked it down and fired it from close range. The puck tipped into the air, hit the cross bar and appeared to be headed into the mesh on top of the cage, but it ricocheted back in front off the goaltender’s water bottle, and Jess Tanguy swatted it past a confused Domingue to even things at 1-1.

Bissonette scored a more conventional goal to put Lewiston in front, capping a 3-on-2 rush with a wrister over Domingue’s glove hand to give the Maineiacs a 2-1 lead at 17:25 of the opening frame.

Mathieu Brisebois missed 24 square feet of net just 6:30 into the second after Bissonette set him up alone on the left side of the cage with Domingue out of the net.

Lewiston’s next pair of games are on the road in Baie-Comeau on Friday and Saturday. The team’s next game at home is slated for Tuesday, Feb. 23 against the Montreal Junior.

Checking in

For the second time in a month, Maineiacs majority owner Mark Just popped into town this weekend for a quick visit. For the most part, he’s happy with what he’s seeing.

“I look at efforts like (Friday) night, and it’s easy to get frustrated,” Just said. “But when you look at the big picture, I know we’ll be beating teams like that in the very near future.”

The last two times Just has been in town signaled some shifting within the organization, from a coaching change to a company retreat to reorganize the front office operations. This time, he said, he’s just visiting.

“I’m very happy with the direction that this club is headed,” Just said. “We have some more things planned that we can’t announce now, making some more positive changes to be sure that this team can grow and succeed here.”