Matt Poitras has 7-9-16 in 17 games since being sent to AHL last month. (Photo courtesy of Providence Bruins)

In their last three games before the Christmas break, the Providence Bruins earned three out of six points.

The week started with a 4-3 road loss in overtime against the Lehigh Valley Phantoms on Wednesday night as Providence’s six-game winning streak was snapped.

The P-Bruins responded with one of their best all-around performances of the season in a 1-0 road win against the Hartford Wolf Pack on Friday.

At home on Saturday, Providence dug an 0-2 hole that they couldn’t climb out of on the way to a 4-2 loss to the Wolf Pack.

“There’s a lot of good elements (from the week), for sure. (Friday night) was one of our best games that we’ve played to date. There were things in (Saturday’s) game that you don’t like. We let our emotions get the best of us, spilled over from last night a little bit, and it cost us. Their goalie was good. Both nights their goaltending was really good. You’ve got to find ways to win,” said coach Ryan Mougenel.

Here’s the good, bad and ugly.

GOOD

— Michael DiPietro stopped all 21 Hartford shots for his second shutout of the season in Friday’s 1-0 win, including a 10-bell save on Adam Sykora with 9:54 left. He is having an excellent season with a 10-4-2 record. His goal’s-against average (2.05) is fifth in the AHL; his save percentage (.923) is sixth.

— After Hartford took liberties with Matt Poitras on Friday, Ryan Mast did what needed to be done, dropping the gloves with Alex Belzile, who had cross-checked Poitras in the back after the whistle.

— Poitras extended his goal streak to seven straight games with a power-play tuck on Wednesday before he was held off the board on Friday. While he didn’t score that night, Poitras played a superb two-way game.

— Georgii Merkulov made a couple of nice passes to set up power play goals. He passed through a seam to Matt Poitras for a one-timer against Lehigh Valley and found Vinni Lettieri for a score in the last minute of the first period on Saturday. He has 3-9-12 in his last 10 games.

— The power play, which was near the bottom of the league not very long ago, is up to 12^th at 18.8 percent.

— Brett Harrison made a good pass to Riley Duran at the edge of the crease for a goal in the third period at Lehigh Valley. It capped an excellent response shift for the P-Bruins, who’d given up the go-ahead goal to the Phantoms just 18 seconds before.

— Jackson Edward saved a goal in the first period on Wednesday, sweeping the puck off the goal line as it was about to roll in.

— Providence outshot Hartford 21-5 in the first period and 16-5 in the second on Friday. At one point, the P-Bruins put 25 straight shots on the Wolf Pack net from the first period into the second.  

— Stick tap for Providence equipment staffer Shjon Whitehead. On Saturday night, after Vinni Lettieri’s stick snapped, Whitehead quickly handed a new stick to Lettieri, who passed to Patrick Brown seconds later for a power play goal.

— Jordan Oesterle has been in Boston for six weeks, but he continues to lead all AHL defensemen with a shooting percentage of 23.1 – three goals on 13 shots.

BAD

— Fabian Lysell was awarded a penalty shot with the score tied at three and 6:27 left in the third period against Lehigh Valley. With the go-ahead goal on his stick, he skated in, threw a bunch of moves at Lehigh Valley goalie Cal Peterson, then fumbled the puck and failed to even get a shot on net.

— Down by a goal, Providence had three power plays in the second half of the third period of Saturday’s loss but didn’t score.

— Six of Providence’s next seven games are on the road.  

— Tyler Pitlick, Jeffrey Viel and John Farinacci broke into the Hartford zone on a three on one with five-and-a-half minutes left in the second on Friday, but Dylan Garand made the save for the Wolf Pack.

UGLY  

— Providence was 7-0 when leading after two periods and was ahead by two goals entering the third period against Lehigh Valley, but then gave up three goals in just over four minutes early and ended up losing in OT. Ouch.

— The P-Bruins’ bus pulled into the AMP at 3:30 a.m. on Thursday after the trip back from Wednesday night’s game in Lehigh Valley.

— Injured: Max Jones, Ryan Mast