A good team is capable of winning even when it doesn’t play all that well.

The Providence Bruins demonstrated that over the weekend. Even after being outplayed at times, they came home from Cleveland with a pair of one-goal victories.

On Friday night, the P-Bruins made a pair of first-period goals stand up in a 2-1 win over the Monsters. On Saturday afternoon, they tied the game in the third period and then won in overtime, 3-2.

As of Monday morning, Providence had a 10-1 record and a .909 points percentage, second-best in the league. They are in first place in the Atlantic Division and in the Eastern Conference.

Here’s the good, bad and ugly.

GOOD

— Michael DiPietro stopped a career-high 42 shots in Friday’s win. He is 6-0 and his .929 save percentage is eighth in the AHL.

— Simon Zajicek improved to 4-1 after kicking out 28 of 30 shots in the victory on Saturday. His .943 save percentage is best in the AHL and his 1.60 goals-against average is second.

— Matt Poitras couldn’t have picked a better time to score his first goal of the season. He converted a picture-perfect pass from Georgii Merkulov from the edge of the blue paint on the power play in OT on Saturday.

— Providence had the puck for the entire 47 seconds of overtime on Saturday before Poitras scored.

— John Farinacci scored in both games in Cleveland, including the GWG on Friday. He has goals in three straight games. He picked the pocket of a Monsters player and fed Schmaltz for a goal on Saturday.

— Jake Schmaltz scored his first goal of the season – a shortie — and added an assist and was plus-two on Saturday.

— With the shots 16-4 in Cleveland’s favor in the first period on Friday, Dans Locmelis scored a shorthanded goal off a good setup from Patrick Brown at the end of a two-on-none rush.

— After being outshot 26-9 through two periods on Saturday, Providence outshot the Monsters 12-4 the rest of the way.

— Providence’s penalty kill was near the bottom of the league a couple of weeks ago, but has now moved up to 12^th at 82.4 percent. They scored a shorthanded goal in both games in Cleveland.

— The season’s only a month old, but Joey Abate threw one of the best hits so far when he blew up Mikael Pyyhtia midway through the third period on Saturday.

— Billy Sweezey pounded out a win over Max McCue in a bout on Friday.

BAD

— There was no call on Roman Ahcan’s high hit that injured Victor Soderstrom on Friday.

— The P-Bruins were outshot 8-0 in the first eight minutes and 20-7 in the first half of Saturday’s game.

— Scheduling a 1 p.m. puck drop on Saturday following a 6 p.m. game on Friday isn’t conducive to good hockey.

UGLY

— Injured: Victor Soderstrom, Max Wanner, Ty Gallagher