Any way you slice it, two wins in three road games is a good week.

That’s what the Providence Bruins did last week, with the first victory coming against the AHL’s best-by-a-mile team, the Hershey Bears.

Missing two important players in Alec Regula and Fabian Lysell, the P-Bruins rolled into Hershey last Tuesday night and beat the 12-time Calder Cup champions, 4-1, sending a crowd of 10,000 home disappointed.

The road show moved on to Utica on Friday night and Providence beat the Comets, 7-4.

On Saturday night, the P-Bruins looked like they didn’t have a lot left in the tank as they lost, 4-0, to the Syracuse Crunch, who are in first place in the North Division.

Here’s the good, bad and ugly.

GOOD

— With Friday’s win, the P-Bruins clinched a spot in the Calder Cup playoffs. This will be their 10^th straight trip to the playoffs. They’ve missed the postseason only five times since the team took the ice in 1992-93.

— As of Monday, Providence was in second place in the Atlantic Division with a 38-19-4-3 record and 83 points. With eight games left in the regular season, they are six points ahead of the third-place Charlotte Checkers, who have seven games left. Providence remains in the driver’s seat to earn a bye in the first round of the playoffs.

— Jayson Megna was a standout in Hershey and Utica. Against the Bears he took a crosscheck in the back from Dylan McIlrath to score Providence’s first goal and added a pair of assists.

He was a factor at both ends of the ice in Utica, with 2-2-4, including a shorthanded goal. He made a fantastic play on the shorty, receiving a pass in his skates, kicking it up to his stick, then going forehand-backhand for the finish, all while skating at high speed.

Later in the game, after coming back to the defensive zone to break up two Utica rushes, he sent Marc McLaughlin in for a breakaway goal.

— Anthony Richard had a goal in Hershey and 2-2-4 in Utica.

— It looked like 23-goal scorer Graeme Clarke was going to give Utica the lead in the opening minutes on Friday, but Brandon Bussi of the P-Bruins made another one of those fabulous saves where he goes side to side and denies what looks like a sure goal.

— The P-Bruins were sour over the questionable and unpenalized hit by Syracuse’s Daniel Walcott that injured Alec Regula on March 24, so it was no surprise that Dan Renouf, Regula’s defense partner, went right at Walcott and dropped the gloves in the opening minutes on Saturday.

— Oskar Steen scored twice against Utica. He has five goals in his last eight games.

— In addition to his usual strong defensive work, Mike Callahan skated in from the point, took a nice pass from Georgii Merkulov, and scored the goal that turned out to be the game-winner against Hershey.

— Marc McLaughlin scored goals against the Bears and the Comets.

— The P-Bruins had one of their best penalty kills of the season in the third period in Hershey. Down two players for a full two minutes, Brandon Bussi, Mike Callahan, Dan Renouf, Patrick Brown, Reilly Walsh, Jayson Megna and Ian Mitchell held the fort.

— Mike DiPietro made 25 saves and allowed no goals in the second period on Saturday.

— Hershey’s Clay Stevenson has the AHL’s best save percentage, but the P-Bruins lit him up for three goals on four shots on the second period.

— The P-Bruins got some very good breaks from the referees in Hershey. They had eight power plays to only four for the Bears.

BAD

— Oskar Steen was poked in the face by the stick of Utica goalie Nico Daws in the third period on Friday. Incredibly, there was no call on the play. As Steen writhed in pain on the ice, the Comets took the puck down to the other end and scored.

— Providence was outshot, 25-6, in the second period on Saturday night. The total of 38 shots against Mike DiPietro were the most he’s faced this season.

— Sitting on a 5-1 lead in the third period, Providence allowed three goals in under six minutes against the Comets before Jayson Megna stopped the bleeding with an empty-net goal.

— Tough defensive zone turnover by Brett Harrison led to Utica’s first goal on Friday.

UGLY

— Injured: Fabian Lysell, Alec Regula, Oskar Steen