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.