It looked like a goal. The players on the ice, those on the bench and the coaches all saw it go in.

The nearest official signaled a goal by pointing several times at the back of the net.

But after emphatically doing so, he changed his mind.

“I thought this was a great game, a great game until the refs cancelled that goal,” Lewiston coach J.F. Houle said. “He saw it, he pointed at the net like, 15 times. That was the game right there. We had all the momentum, we scored a goal, and then it was disallowed. The players were mad, and they should have been.”

Trailing by three goals early in the third, that disallowed tally would have been the Maineiacs’ second in less than five minutes. Ultimately, Drummondville scored again. Lewiston added another, but not until the game was all but over, and the Voltigeurs continued to vex the Maineiacs, earning a 4-2 win at Centre Marcel Dionne on Friday.

Drummondville took advantage of a 4-on-3 power play in the first, and Sean Couturier got the glory, netting his 32nd of the season to put the host squad on top by one.

The Volts added a second later in the frame, this one at even strength, on Nicolas Dionne’s sixth.

Despite a shot margin of 17-7 in favor of the Volts in the first, the Maineiacs held their own.

“I thought it was much more even than the shots say,” Houle said. “We had four good quality chances that their goalie made some nice saves on, and they had some power plays that helped the shots go higher.”

Neither team scored in a much different second frame. Drummondville extended its lead to 3-0 early in the third before Matthew Bissonnette broke the ice for Lewiston less than two minutes later.

Ondrej Palat netted his 34th of the year, also on the power play, to run the score to 4-1 before Sam Henley chimed in with his 11th for the Maineiacs’ second power-play goal of the contest in the final minute of play.

The same two teams will battle it out Sunday at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee at 4 p.m.

“That’s part of hockey, playing teams back-to-back like that,” Houle said. “We need wins right now. we need as many points as we can get for the standings, and it’s going to be another big game.”