LEWISTON – Good night, good luck, and thank you for coming, Lewiston. Your parting gifts – perhaps a bag of pucks and a stick or two – will be waiting for you at the door.

Five days after it began, the Lewiston Maineiacs’ foray into the 2009 Quebec Major Junior Hockey League playoffs is over. Mike Hoffman recorded a natural hat trick in the first 13:57 of the opening period and Drummondville opened up a six-goal lead in the first 20 minutes en route to a series-clinching 9-3 win over the Maineiacs at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee on Wednesday.

“We don’t look at it as one team down, but more of that’s four games,” Drummondville coach Guy Boucher said. “We’ve been good at taking each game as it comes this season, and we know we have 16 more to go to reach our goal.”

Drummondville capped a dominating series, finishing off the Maineiacs in four games by a combined score of 38-9. Hoffman had 11 goals in the four-game series, while Yannick Riendeau earned five points Tuesday to finish with 19 in four games.

The Drummondville power play again flexed its muscle Wednesday, tacking on five more goals on six chances. The Volts finished an astonishing 22 of 45 with the extra skater on the series.

“Their power play is just extremely good, and our penalty-killing wasn’t nearly good enough to match it,” Lewiston coach Don MacAdam said. “That’s the same power play that Team Canada used in the World Junior Championships, and it was Guy who designed it there, too.”

Lewiston captain Danick Paquette received a suspension for his fight in the final seconds of Tuesday’s Game 3 and was not in Wednesday’s lineup. But MacAdam praised the rest of his squad for its efforts over the course of the whole series.

“I was really impressed with the way our guys never quit,” MacAdam said. “The fact that, after the results of the first three games, this group played so hard and so determined, that was very impressive.”

Boucher said following Game 3 the team would remember the Maineiacs’ choice of late-game line changes, and it appeared Wednesday the Volts were willing to take their frustrations out on Lewiston – on the scoreboard.

“That’s kind of what we’ve done this year,” Boucher said. “The boys are so hungry in situation like that, they always want more.”

Hoffman wasted no time popping in his first-frame hat trick, getting two power-play goals in the first 6:50, and adding his third on a redirection in front on a feed from Chris DiDomenico.

Dany Masse, Yannick Riendeau and Philippe Lefebvre tacked on the rest of the goals in the opening stanza, the latter coming against Adrien Lemay, who relieved Peter Delmas after five goals on 16 shots.

The Maineiacs and Volts played the second period evenly, scoring three goals each. Dominic Savoie, Marc Bourgeois and Tomy Dery each found the back of the net for the Maineiacs, while the Volts’ DiDomenico struck for his first two of the series to go with one from Riendeau.

In the third, neither team could find the back of the net.

The Maineiacs have a get-together planned for Thursday, one final goodbye for the players and fans, though final details had yet to be worked out late Wednesday.

“It seemed to me the fans really appreciated how hard the players worked tonight,” MacAdam said. “A lot of fans stuck around tonight, and for this time of year, after it was pretty obvious to them the team wasn’t going to win a game, they were still here and supporting the guys to the end. That’s impressive.”