Sure, you feel ripped off.

So do I, to be honest with you.

I’ve been to Rimouski. They have passionate fans, a decently-sized city and a fantastic riverfront view in the warmer months. Their arena is decent and they’ve certainly offered a ton to the league wince they moved from Sherbrooke nearly 20 years ago.

But Rimouski isn’t Portland.

Not even close.

But, sour grapes or not, the Lewiston Maineiacs will arrive back in Lewiston in roughly 134 days. Many of the same faces we saw at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee this week saying farewell to the fans will be back.

There will be new faces, acquired via trade and via draft, and there will be familiar faces, some of them coming back for a fourth go-around in our All-America city.

So who, or what, can we expect back?

I offer you my not-so-humble list of wants and wishes for these upcoming summer months:

• A healthy return to action for those players on the back end, specifically on defense and in net.

The end of the playoffs was not kind to a few Maineiacs. Goaltender Peter Delmas sat out more than four weeks with a lower-body injury, and Guillaume Durand suffered a deep bruise to his leg after blocking a shot in Game 6.

If the Maineiacs’ back end returns in complete health, the team can start thinking about contending right away.

• A new European forward, perhaps this time one who can bury the puck and dazzle the opposition with skill.

This isn’t a knock on Jakub Bundil or Denis Reul, both of whom performed admirably in this year’s playoff push. But since the team has been in Lewiston, it has lacked a high-impact scoring presence from Europe, something almost every other team in the league has had at least once or twice in that span. I am thinking a 40-50 goal scorer.

• Two new 20-year-old scoring forwards.

I am a big fan of gritty, hard-nosed, workman-like players. Matt Bourdeau, Todd Chinova and Lucas Labelle were great pickups for this season, and I loved their hustle and grit in the corners.

But 20-year-old skaters need to be your best players on the ice. Last year, the Maineiacs had Pierre-Luc Faubert and Simon Courcelles as 20-year-olds, and they were both amont the team’s leaders in scoring, and certainly in character.

This year, while we got some solid production from Stefano Giliati, the rest of what we got wasn’t nearly enough, for whatever reason.

• A faceoff guy.

Where in the name of Maxime Robert have all the Maxime Roberts gone?

The shifty, undersized centerman, traded before the team’s second season in Lewiston, was a wizard in the faceoff circle. Last year, the team had Simon Courcelles for important draws.

This year? The Maineiacs were consistently slow to the puck off the draw.

• An attitude adjustment.

I am not a big believer in the post-championship hangover. Or, at least, I wasn’t. From the beginning of the season, some of the players on the team were content to have gone to the Memorial Cup once in their lifetime. The drive wasn’t there to repeat.

With that now a full season behind them, and with the added motivation of being beat out to host the tournament, I have to think that the team and its players will be ready to go after the President’s Cup trophy again.

Some of these wants and wishes may well come from within.

Pier-Olvier Morin, Tomy Dery and John MacDonald all saw time with Lewiston this season, and Danick Paquette had a great sophomore season. Billy Lacasse is a great speedster with great hands up front, and Eric Gelinas has developed well on the point in his rookie season.

No matter what happens at the entry draft, the import draft or in training camp, though, the team will set forth on its journey toward another title in September. For this community’s sake, I hope plenty of you are going to be along for the ride.