Joey Abate scored his first goal of the season in Hartford on Wednesday and added an assist. (Photo courtesy of Providence Bruins)

All’s well that ends well. After starting the week with a deflating fourth-straight loss, the Providence Bruins rebounded with a pair of much-needed one-goal wins.

In the first game of the week on the night before Thanksgiving, the P-Bruins blew a two-goal lead in the third period on the way to a kick-in-the-crotch 6-4 loss to the Wolf Pack in Hartford.

On Friday in Pennsylvania, Providence pulled out a 2-1 overtime victory over the Lehigh Valley Phantoms. The road trip ended on a positive note with a 2-1 win against the Bridgeport Islanders on Saturday night.

Here’s the good, bad and ugly.

GOOD

— The P-Bruins got back to .500 on Saturday night at 8-8-1-2. They went 7-5 in November. They are in seventh place in the Atlantic Division but are only two points away from third place.

— Brandon Bussi stole a win against Lehigh Valley as he stopped 41 of 42 shots. Mikey DiPietro was outstanding in the 2-1 victory in Bridgeport with 35 saves.

— Fabian Lysell scored the game-winner on both Friday and Saturday. Both goals were on the power play.

— Georgii Merkulov’s diligent work at both ends of the ice continues to be impressive. His pass to Fabian Lysell for the OT winner on Friday was a thing of beauty.

— After a long streak of futility (0 for 19), the power play delivered in the clutch with a pair of PP goals against Lehigh Valley and another one in Bridgeport.

— John Farinacci had two primary assists in Hartford and scored Providence’s first goal in Bridgeport. He leads the team in scoring with 6-9-15 in 19 games.

— John Farinacci and Dan Renouf, who made a nice pass to Farinacci for a goal on Saturday, are both plus-10. That’s an impressive number on a team that has given up more goals (57) that it’s scored (55).

— Joey Abate had a strong game against the Wolf Pack. He scored his first goal of the season, recorded an assist, had four shots and was plus-two.

— Trevor Kuntar recorded two assists and was plus-two against the Wolf Pack.

— Luke Toporowski had a goal and an assist in Hartford. With six goals, he is tied with John Farinacci and Fabian Lysell for the team lead.

BAD

— Providence gave up a goal with three seconds left in the first period against the Wolf Pack. It was a sign of things to come.

— Bounces that went Providence’s way were hard to come by in the third period in Hartford. With the P-Bruins up, 4-2, Alex Belzile’s pass ramped off Jakub Zboril’s stick and into the net for a Wolf Pack goal. After that, the roof caved in on the P-Bruins.

— That was a very lame interference call that referee Riley Brace made on Alec Regula in the last minute of play on Wednesday. And, of course, given the way things were going that night for Providence, the Wolf Pack quickly potted the winning goal on the power play.

— Vincent Arseneau took an ill-advised roughing penalty in the third period against the Phantoms, who tied the game on the power play with 5:48 left.

UGLY

— The P-Bruins gave up four goals in the final 11 minutes in the loss in Hartford.

— Providence was outshot 14-1 at the start of the game against Lehigh Valley and 11-0 in the first seven minutes of the second period against Bridgeport.

— The penalty kill is 31^st in the AHL at 74.3 percent.

John Farinacci scored Providence’s only goal on Sunday in Bridgeport. He is tied for the team lead in points with 5-7-12 in 13 games. (Photo courtesy of Providence Bruins)

After winning five of six, the Providence Bruins plummeted back to earth over the weekend.

They lost all three of their games while scoring a measly four goals.

The weekend started with a 4-2 loss at home to the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins. It was one of Providence’s weakest offensive efforts of the season. The P-Bruins showed more life on Saturday but lost to the Penguins again, 2-1. Traveling to Bridgeport on Sunday, Providence fell, 3-1, to the Islanders.

“We’re struggling to score,” coach Ryan Mougenel said after Saturday’s loss. “We have to make a decision to play the way we need to play. Some guys are doing it, for sure. Other guys are on their own page.”

Here’s the good, bad and ugly.

GOOD

— Georgii Merkulov, John Farinacci and Justin Brazeau scored a total of a goal and an assist in the three games. They were the only players with more than a point.

Ryan Mougenel had this to say about Merkulov after Saturday’s loss: “Merk’s one guy I’m extremely happy with. He works his tail off.”

— The P-Bruins scored twice in 22 seconds to make a game of it on Friday.

— Reilly Walsh scored his first goal of the season on Saturday night.

BAD

— Providence finished the weekend in seventh place in the Atlantic Division with a record of 6-7-1-2.

— Alex Nedeljkovic of the Penguins hit dead center on the empty net for a goal on Friday. When the opposition goalie buries one, well, that’s never a good thing.

— After Wilkes-Barre/Scranton scored goals from around the Providence crease in the two games against the Penguins. Ryan Mougenel wasn’t happy with his defense.

 “You want to be a Bruin, you’ve got to box out, you’ve got to get under sticks, you’ve got to be mean. Right now there’s not a lot of mean back there,” he said.

— The P-Bruins have allowed 49 goals. Only four teams have given up more.

— When it rains, it pours: The team will spend Thanksgiving in Allentown, Pa.

UGLY

— Injured: Parker Wotherspoon, Vincent Arseneau, Fabian Lysell.

— The P-Bruins had just one shot in the second period on Friday and only five in the third period.

— The power play went 0 for 13 in the three games. The P-Bruins have had 76 power play opportunities, second-most in the league. But the PP’s success rate is 24^th at 14.5 percent.

Jesper Boqvist tucks the puck past Hartford goalie Dylan Garand for the game-winning goal in overtime on Sunday. (Photo courtesy of Providence Bruins)

It was the best weekend of the season so far for the Providence Bruins as they won all three games and walked away with six out of six points.

The P-Bruins opened with a sloppy 5-4 decision against the Springfield Thunderbirds at home on Friday.

Providence played a very strong road game on Saturday and earned a 2-0 win against the Hartford Wolf Pack.

Back home on Sunday, the P-Bruins notched an entertaining 3-2 overtime win against Hartford.

“I think the guys should be real proud of how they responded from a real tough Tuesday practice. The response was fantastic. The quality of some of the veteran players kind of led the way with (Dan) Renouf and Mike Callahan, I guess, is one of those veteran players now. That’s happened pretty quickly,” coach Ryan Mougenel said after Sunday’s win.

“The most important thing is that we’re playing the way we need to play to have success. The things that we value as foundations are being bought into. At the end of the day, that translates into wins.”

Here’s the good, bad and ugly.

GOOD

— After Fabian Lysell put the puck on his tape, Jesper Boqvist raced in and scored the game-winning goal in overtime on Sunday to cap a terrific weekend for Providence.

“I thought him and Fabian had a little bit of a connection and (Trent Whitfield) should take full credit for putting those two together in overtime. That was a fantastic goal,” said Mougenel.

— Did not expect an offensive explosion from Dan Renouf this weekend but that’s what he delivered. He buried the game-winner with 1:46 left in Friday’s game, plus he had three assists, then he scored a critical insurance goal on Saturday.

— Michael DiPietro was outstanding in stopping all 34 of Hartford’s shots on Saturday, starting with a nice stop of an Adam Edstrom shorthanded breakaway 52 seconds into the game. He committed highway robbery, as Fred Cusick used to say, with a glove save on Riley Nash on a Wolf Pack power play midway through the first period. And he stood tall in the third, stopping all 19 Hartford shots.

DiPietro has a .935 save percentage in three starts.

— Brandon Bussi turned in a strong game on Sunday, turning aside 35 of 37 shots in the win.

— There’s been an uptick in Fabian Lysell’s play since he was benched for a period by coach Ryan Mougenel on Oct. 22. He scored a goal on Friday night and sent in Jesper Boqvist for the game-winner in OT on Sunday after earning an assist earlier in the game on Marc McLaughlin’s power-play goal. He leads the team with 4-8-12 in 13 games.

— The fourth line of Brett Harrison/Trevor Kuntar/Curtis Hall had a strong game on Saturday, combining for seven shots. Hall scored after a good play by Kuntar on a faceoff in Hartford’s end in the first period. Kuntar kicked the puck to Hall, who scored his first goal of the season. In the third period Hall and Harrison did some good digging on the boards, leading to Dan Renouf’s goal, which doubled Providence’s lead. Hall and Harrison were credited with assists.

— Georgii Merkulov scored a goal and played a strong all-around game on Friday. Ryan Mougenel said it was the best game he’d ever seen Merkulov play.

— Alec Regula scored a goal and was plus-three in Friday’s win.

— Special teams had an excellent weekend. The penalty kill was 7 for 7. The power play scored a pair of goals on Sunday. The Fabian Lysell to John Farinacci to Marc McLaughlin goal in the third period was a thing of beauty. With his score, McLaughlin snapped a stretch of 10 games without a goal.

BAD

— The way Reilly Walsh and Jakub Zboril mismanaged the puck leading up to Will Bitten’s goal early in the second period on Friday was … not good. The P-Bruins had just taken the lead, then they gave up the tying goal 17 seconds later.

— Providence was outshot, 19-2, in the third period in Hartford.

— Brandon Bussi allowed two goals on the first five shots on Friday.

— It would have been nice to see exactly what Parker Wotherspoon did to earn a game misconduct at the end of the second period on Saturday, but the AHLtv feed from Hartford immediately switched to between periods mode and didn’t show it. Lame.

UGLY

— Ugly is canceled for the week. I don’t even have anything negative to say about the refereeing.

The Providence Bruins returned from a three-game road trip to Pennsylvania and Ohio in better shape than when they left.

Struggling as they started the week, the P-Bruins took some positive steps and earned four out of six points.

The trip started with a gritty 3-1 win against the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins on Wednesday. The P-Bruins moved on to Cleveland and the offense got untracked in a 7-3 victory over the Monsters on Friday night. In the rematch on Saturday night, Providence led late in the game but gave up two goals and lost, 5-4.

While the P-Bruins finished the weekend in seventh place in the Atlantic Division, they are only four points behind the second-place Hartford Wolf Pack.

Here’s the good, bad and ugly.

GOOD

— It was the best week of the young season by miles for Fabian Lysell. He scored a goal and assisted on two in Friday’s win, then sniped a goal off the rush and added an assist on Saturday. Lysell now leads the team in scoring with 3-6-9 in 10 games.

— Brandon Bussi won both his starts and added to his already impressive highlight reel with a fabulous stop on Jonathan Gruden of the Penguins. With Providence up by a goal in the final minutes, Gruden had the whole net to shoot at before Bussi, without his stick, slid over and made the save with his blocker glove. Incredible.

— Anthony Richard scored his first goal of the season and assisted on Lysell’s goal on Saturday night.

— John Farinacci stripped flashy Columbus first-rounder Kent Johnson of the puck and, with a nifty backhand finish, scored a breakaway shorthanded goal late in Saturday’s game. He also had an assist. Farinacci is second on the team with 4-4-8 in 10 games and his plus-9 is tied for second in the league.

— Vincent Arseneau had a very good week. His first goal of the season was the game-winner against the Penguins. He posted a Gordie Howe hat trick on Friday that included a one-sided win in the fight. On Saturday, he knocked Samuel Knazko into next week with a clean check.

— The power play went 3 for 7 on Friday.

— Justin Brazeau has goals in two straight games. Jakub Zboril has assists in three games in a row.

— 12 different Providence players recorded points on Friday.

— Luke Toporowski scored twice, including the game-winner, on Friday.

— Curtis Hall, a native of Ohio, was in the starting lineup in his home state for Friday’s game and earned primary assists on two goals.

— Thankfully, the team flew home from Cleveland. By bus, the trip would have been around nine hours.

BAD

— I don’t normally figure callups to Boston into the “Bad” part of this column. After all, providing players to the parent club is why the P-Bruins exist. But it’s worth mentioning Providence was without three top defensemen – Ian Mitchell, Mason Lohrei and Parker Wotherspoon – for the last three games.

— Kyle Keyser’s save percentage in his two starts is .842. Going with three goalies, as the P-Bruins are, isn’t good for anyone.

— Providence faces its first three-in-three weekend starting Friday.

— Play-by-play guys who reflexively gripe “And there’s no call!” every time someone on the team that signs their paychecks goes down need to shut the hell up. Save it for when there really is a missed call. Chances are it won’t be long.

— Speaking of which, referee Jordan Samuels-Thomas was 15 feet away and looking right at it when a Cleveland player’s slash broke the stick of Frederic Brunet in the second period. Seconds later, the puck was in Providence’s net.

— Ahead by one with under three minutes left in Saturday’s game, Providence gave up two goals in 1:32 and lost, 5-4.

UGLY

— The penalty kill is 31^st in the AHL at 70.7 percent. Cleveland scored three power play goals – including two 5 on 3s — on seven chances on Friday.

— It was after 4 a.m. on Thursday when Providence’s bus pulled into Cleveland after Wednesday night’s game at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton.

— Injured: Joey Abate