LEWISTON — In the back of their minds, the Lewiston Maineiacs remembered.

In the 2010 playoffs, the Drummondville Voltigeurs swept Lewiston in four games, outscoring the Maineiacs 22-6. In the regular season, the Voltigeurs were 7-0-0-1 against Lewiston.

The previous season, it was more of the same: a 7-0-0-1 season followed by a four-game playoff sweep.

Not this time. Not this season. And not in their house.

Matthew Bissonnette clicked with his new linemates to the tune of four points, Francis Beauvillier netted a pair of goals to reach 10 on the year and Nicholas Champion stopped 17 shots for his first shutout of the season as Lewiston earned its first regulation win at home over Drummondville in more than two seasons with a 7-0 victory at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee.

“It’s nice to beat Drummondville like that,” Maineiacs’ coach J.F. Houle said. “The last two years, they pounded us pretty much, and they kept their first line out there late in the game and stuff like that. I was kind of happy we beat them tonight like this.”

The win over the Volts is the Maineiacs’ second this season in two tries, though this one came admittedly a bit easier. Two of Drummondville’s top players — and two of the top players in the QMJHL — are away at the World Junior Hockey Tournament, and another four regular skaters in the Volts’ lineup are currently injured.

“One thing we wanted, we needed our guys, even though we had that many players out of the lineup, we wanted to see them compete hard,” Drummondville coach Mario Duhamel said. “We know Lewiston is a fast team. They have a good team, and we wanted to see the younger players step up and play against them. We saw some good things, but I think we needed to be better, too.”

Houle had originally juggled the lines to reunite Bissonnette with Michael Chaput and Stefan Fournier, who all played together in midget hockey. But an illness to Fournier forced Houle to move Russian sniper Kirill Kabanov to the top line alongside Bissonnette and Chaput. The line combined to score three goals and record five assists.

“The points, it was great to get them, but most of it came from my linemates,” Bissonnette said. “We clicked well together.”

The goals started piling up early.

Sam Carrier converted on the power play just 3:49 into the contest when he ripped a one-timer from the left circle into a yawning cage after the Maineiacs’ puck-movement forced Nadeau out of position.

Bissonnette made it 2-0 to finish off a tic-tac-toe pass play that began with Kabanov tipping the puck to Chaput in the left corner. Chaput found Bissonnette at the right post to the tap-in.

Kabanov registered one of his own as he glided to the left side of the low slot, one-timing a feed from Bissonnette who kept the puck alive at the right point on a Drummondville clear attempt.

“We had the momentum and we kept the momentum,” Houle said.

Beauvillier’s first of the game made it 4-0 early in the second, and Lewiston continued to pressure the Volts mercilessly. Another Lewiston power play late in the middle frame opened the floodgates again. Chaput notched his 12th of the season at 17:03 on that man advantage to run the score to 5-0. Fifty-nine seconds later, Beauvillier struck again after a huge hit in the corner by Bryce Milson sprung him free over the middle, and Etinne Brodeur beat the buzzer, tickling the twine behind the Volts’ keeper with less than one second to play in the period to add the extra point and give the Maineiacs a 7-0 advantage.

“It was a little weird,” Bissonnette said. “Me and Chaput, we were talking on the bench, we were outskating them, making them look silly on defense.”

“A lot of the guys they’re missing, they’re offensive guys, but they’re good defensively, too,” Houle said. “They missed them on the backcheck.”

“Our chemistry wasn’t there like it needed to be,” Duhamel said.

Lewiston continues its homestand with a pair of contests this weekend against Rouyn-Noranda, and concludes the five-game stand Thursday, Jan. 13 against Halifax.