The Providence Bruins didn’t win either of their games over the weekend, but they did manage to earn two out of four points by losing in overtime and in a shootout.

On Saturday, the P-Bruins gave up a one-goal lead in the third period before losing, 3-2, in OT to the Charlotte Checkers. On Sunday, Providence came from behind to tie the game in the third period, but then lost in the shootout, 3-2, to the Syracuse Crunch. Both games were at home.

“From a staff perspective, our overall feeling is we played really hard and had a lot of chances. We just didn’t finish. That happens sometimes, but I liked our effort a lot more (Sunday) than I did (Saturday), for sure,” said coach Ryan Mougenel after Sunday’s game.

“We’re just not finding the greasy goals that we were early on. We’ve got to get back to that, a little bit more of a workman’s mentality and maybe not be so fine at times offensively.”

Providence now hits the road for games in Hershey, Utica, Syracuse and Lehigh Valley. They are third in the AHL with a points percentage of .667 on the road.

“I think it’s good for the team, for sure, to be on the road and be around each other, enjoy each other and get back to having some fun and playing the way we need to play to have success,” said Mougenel.

Here’s the good, bad and ugly.

GOOD

— Providence continues to hold tight to second place in the Atlantic Division – and a bye in the opening round of the playoffs — with a 36-18-4-3 record with 11 games left in the regular season. They are six points ahead of the third-place Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins with two games in hand.

— Brandon Bussi made 45 saves on Saturday night. It was the second straight game in which he stopped over 40 shots.

— John Farinacci assisted on both Providence goals on Saturday night.

— Against Charlotte, Reilly Walsh scored his third goal in three games.

— Anthony Richard scored a goal and had six shots against Syracuse.

— Providence’s power play went 2 for 3 on Saturday and scored the game-tying goal on Sunday.

BAD

— Daniel Walcott of Syracuse knocked Alec Regula out of the game with an unpenalized hit along the boards late in the second period on Sunday, then Walcott declined to answer the bell when challenged by Dan Renouf, Regula’s defense partner. It wouldn’t be a surprise if Walcott hears from the league about the hit.

— Providence gave up 48 shots against the Checkers and was outshot in the first period, 18-6.

— The P-Bruins have lost their last three games — one in regulation time, one in overtime and one in a shootout.

— The offense, which is tied for fifth in the AHL with 205 goals, has scored only two goals in each of the last three games.

UGLY

— Injured: Fabian Lysell, Alec Regula.

Lysell, second on the team in scoring with 15-35-50 in 55 games, and Regula, who has an AHL-best plus-36, are important players for Providence.

“He’s gonna miss, probably, significant time, I would imagine. It’s disappointing. He was starting to play really well,” Mougenel said of Lysell.

Honestly, the Providence Bruins were fortunate to come away from the weekend with two out of four points.

They were outplayed on Friday but stole a 4-3 shootout win over the Lehigh Valley Phantoms thanks to goalie Brandon Bussi.

On Saturday, the P-Bruins grabbed an early 2-0 lead but then gave up five straight goals (the last one was an empty-netter) in a 5-2 loss to the Phantoms.

“There were a lot of passengers (on Saturday). Our team is not built to have passengers. We’ve done a great job this year of building a team game. I didn’t like some of the individual play. I didn’t like some of the guys’ juice, to be honest with you,” said coach Ryan Moungenel after Saturday’s game.

“We’re looking for guys that are going to play in the playoffs and battle in the playoffs. From an organizational standpoint, it needs to be understood that some of them that we count on can’t play like that. It’s got to get better and it’s going to be addressed this week.”

Here’s the good, bad and ugly.

GOOD

— The P-Bruins finished the weekend with a solid hold on second place in the Atlantic Division with a 36-18-3-2 record and 77 points. They are eight points ahead of third-place Wilkes-Barre/Scranton with 13 games to go.

— Brandon Bussi stopped 39 shots plus three more in the shootout on Friday. The save he made on Adam Brooks early in the third period might have been his best of the season. He’s now 3-0 against Lehigh Valley.

— Providence’s second goal on Friday – Fabian Lysell to Jayson Megna to Georgii Merkulov for a tap-in off the rush – was a thing of beauty.

— Vincent Arseneau was a presence, to say the least, on Saturday night. He fought Phantoms’ heavyweight Garrett Wilson after a big (and somehow unpenalized) hit on Trevor Kuntar in the first period. When a melee broke out in the third period, Arseneau buckled 6-foot-4 Will Zmolek with an explosive left.

— Reilly Walsh scored twice and was plus-three on Friday night.

— Georgii Merkulov had a goal and an assist both nights, plus the only shootout goal on Friday. After scoring 24 goals and 55 points in 67 games as a rookie, Merkulov has 25 goals and 55 points in 54 games this year. He is now fourth in the AHL in points.

— Fabian Lysell had two assists on both Friday and Saturday. He had 14-23-37 in 54 games as a rookie. He is up to 15-34-49 in 55 games this year.

— Providence is third in the AHL with 201 goals for.

BAD

— The P-Bruins simply had no answer for Lehigh Valley’s line of Olle Lycksell (0-4), Tanner Laczynski (3-1) and Adam Brooks (2-3) on Saturday.

— Providence was outshot 42-21, including 17-4 in the third period, on Friday, and 39-31 on Saturday.

— Anthony Richard was minus-four on Saturday. Georgii Merkulov and Ian Mitchell were minus-three.

— The refereeing duo of Justin Kea and Samuel Heidemann worked both games, with predictable results. In addition to questionable penalties and missed calls, they disallowed a goal that should have counted and allowed a goal that shouldn’t have counted on Friday night. For good measure, they slapped a game misconduct for abuse of officials on Lehigh’s Adam Ginning at the final horn on Saturday.

UGLY

— Cooper Marody’s two-handed hack caught Providence’s Joey Abate in the face with 13:10 left on Friday. No call.

— Injured: Alec Regula

Brett Harrison lugs a big stuffed animal off the ice after Sunday’s Teddy Bear Toss. (Photo courtesy of Providence Bruins)

It was an “all’s well that ends well” weekend for the Providence Bruins.

They started with a poor performance in a 7-4 road loss against the Hartford Wolf Pack on Friday night, their second straight defeat. But they rebounded with a good effort in a 5-0 win at home on Sunday against the Springfield Thunderbirds.

“The guys did a good job responding. It says a lot about the group, for sure,” said coach Ryan Mougenel. “Our leaders led us today. (Patrick) Brown, (Jayson) Megna, (Dan) Renouf. And then (Brandon) Bussi. He was excellent for us.”

Here’s the good, bad and ugly.

GOOD

— Springfield had some great chances, but Brandon Bussi stopped all 36 T-Bird shots for his first shutout of the season on Sunday.

— Providence finished the weekend in second place in the Atlantic Division with a 35-17-3-2 record. With 15 games left in the regular season, the P-Bruins are nine points ahead of Wilkes-Barre/Scranton and Hartford.

— Johnny Beecher played one of his better games of the year on Sunday. He was around it all day, setting up Joey Abate for a goal and then converting a pass from Abate for a goal of his own.

— The power play went 3 for 5 on Friday and 1 for 3 on Sunday.

— Jayson Megna got the P-Bruins off on the right foot with a shorthanded goal on a breakaway in the first period against the T-Birds and set up Georgii Merkulov’s power play goal in the final minute of the game.

— Providence is tied for the league lead with 13 shorthanded goals.

— Defense partners Alec Regula and Dan Renouf were plus-three on Sunday. Regula leads the league with plus-37 and Renouf is tied for third with plus-27.

— Patrick Brown scored twice on Friday and set up a goal by Oskar Steen on Sunday.

— Joey Abate, after signing his first NHL contract with Boston on Friday, scored a goal and set up Johnny Beecher for a score on Sunday.

— Georgii Merkulov scored a power-play goal in each game.

— Providence has won six straight against Springfield.

BAD

— The first six power plays on Friday went to Hartford. Providence was down 6-0 before they got their first PP.

— The P-Bruins gave up 20 shots and three goals in the first period against Hartford.

— After allowing five goals on 23 shots versus the Wolf Pack, Michael DiPietro was pulled for the second time in his last three starts.

UGLY

— The P-Bruins gave up three goals in 68 seconds early in the second period against Hartford as a three-goal deficit quickly became a six-goal hole.

— Providence penalty kill on the road is 31^st in the AHL at 75 percent. They gave up four power play goals on Friday.

— Injured: Alec Regula, Reilly Walsh

Johnny Beecher looks to make a play against Springfield. He scored twice in Friday night’s game. (Photo courtesy of Providence Bruins)

The Providence Bruins started the weekend with a solid 4-2 win against the Springfield Thunderbirds at the Amica Mutual Pavilion on Friday and finished it with a 5-2 home loss (two empty netters) to the Hartford Wolf Pack on Sunday.

Lately, the P-Bruins had been money on Sundays, winning their previous six in a row on that day. But against Hartford they fell behind by two goals in the second period – a period they usually dominate, outscoring opponents, 65-41 — and couldn’t catch up. The loss snapped a five-game winning streak.

Here’s the good, bad and ugly.

GOOD

— With a record of 34-16-3-2, the P-Bruins finished the weekend in second place in the Atlantic Division and in the Eastern Conference, trailing only the runaway train that is the Hershey Bears. With 17 games left, Providence leads third-place Wilkes-Barre/Scranton by nine points in the Atlantic.

— The P-Bruins are tied with the Cleveland Monsters for most goals in the AHL with 186.

— After earning an assist on Providence’s first score, Anthony Richard scored a brilliant goal for his 20th of the season on Sunday. Entering the zone (maybe it was offside and maybe it wasn’t), he turned on the jets, knifed between two Hartford defensemen and beat goalie Dylan Garand. It’s the third time he’s reached the 20-goal mark in the AHL.

— Playing on the wing, Johnny Beecher scored twice in just over two minutes in the third period on Friday night, snapping a 12-game goal-less streak. Patrick Brown assisted on both goals. “It was really nice to see,” said coach Ryan Mougenel. “It looked like (Beecher) was having a little bit of fun.”

— With Trevor Kuntar scoring twice, the physical fourth line of Vinny Arseneau, Kuntar and Joey Abate had a strong performance in Friday’s win. “One thing that fourth line does is put a lot of anxiety on D because they finish their routes,” said Mougenel.

— Ian Mitchell did a good job finding a shooting lane on his goal on Sunday.

BAD

— There’s a lot to like about the way Trevor Kuntar plays the game, but he leads all AHL rookies in minor penalties with 29.

— Providence has been outshot in the third period, 572-494.

— No doubt this is nit-picking considering where the P-Bruins are in the standings, but they have a 1-6-0-1 record when trailing after two periods.

UGLY

— The P-Bruins gave up a goal just 43 seconds into the first period on Sunday and another only 1:58 into the second period. On Friday night, they allowed a goal at 2:40 of the third period.

Trevor Kuntar gets ready to celebrate after tucking the puck past Malcolm Subban for Providence’s first goal on Friday night. (Photo courtesy of Providence Bruins)