LEWISTON – Player after player – blonde head after blonde head – bobbed past the coaches’ office in the Lewiston Maineiacs’ locker room Monday.

They wore smiles, music pumped from the sound system, and there was plenty of screaming and laughter coming through the walls.

“Think they’ve moved on?” coach Don MacAdam said.

Two games into the playoffs, the Drummondville Voltigeurs have outscored the Maineiacs 22-4, taking a 2-0 lead in the teams’ best-of-7 first-round series.

“You go right back to the basics is what you do,” MacAdam said. “The limited success we’ve had this year was when we had good, strong basic hockey as our foundation. When we get away from the basics, that’s when we get into trouble.”

Drummondville has been deadly on its power play in the first two games, officially clicking at a 54.5 percent clip. The Volts have scored 12 goals on 22 power play chances.

“We know their power play has two of the league’s top scorers on it,” MacAdam said. “They’re very well-coached in that regard; they know what they’re doing. We know what they’re doing and we’re still having a problem stopping it because we’re not doing the basics well enough.”

On the flip side, all four of the Maineiacs’ goals in this series have come on the power play. The team is 4-for-12 with the extra attacker. At 33.3 percent, it’s the best the team has looked all season in that statistical category.

“At least we have that ironed out,” MacAdam said with a smile.

Lewiston’s margins of defeat in Games 1 and 2 weren’t pretty – nine goals in each – but a quick glance around the league shows the Maineiacs aren’t alone. Only one of the eight current playoff series’ is even at 1-1, and the average margin of victory in the first pair of games in each of the other series’ is exactly five.

“Ours was the worst, but that’s still five goals,” MacAdam said. “It is what it is in this league this year. It’s not a complete shock.”

If the Maineiacs want to make a series of it, MacAdam said, it comes down to staying out of the penalty box.

“We haven’t been able to play disciplined enough,” MacAdam said. “A couple of players have decided they wanted to play their own game, and unfortunately we’re limited in the number of players we have. It’s not like we can switch three, four or five guys out. People recognize stupid. I’m sure people watching the games Friday and Saturday didn’t say, ‘Oh, the Maineiacs are dummies,’ they said, ‘Number such-and-such, that guy is stupid because he should know better.'”

Offensively, the Maineiacs’ goals have come from Danick Paquette, Max Gratchev, Alex Beaton and Dominic Savoie. Patrick Cusack, Sam Finn and Billy Lacasse have each registered assists.

In contrast, the Volts have three players on their roster with as many or more goals than the entire Maineiacs’ squad. Dany Masse and Mike Hoffman have scored six goals each, Chris DiDomenico has eight assists and Yannick Riendeau has 10 points.

The Maineiacs and Voltigeurs kick off Game 3 at 7 p.m. at the Colisee, with Game 4 set for Wednesday. If Game 5 were necessary, the team’s would play that game Friday in Drummondville.