With an eye to climbing out of the Atlantic Division basement, the Providence Bruins split their two weekend games.

They started the weekend with a frustrating 2-0 road loss to the Hartford Wolf Pack on Friday.

They bounced back at home on Saturday with a 5-2 win over the Utica Comets.

The bad news is that they remain last in the Atlantic with six points, two behind the Springfield Thunderbirds.

The good news is that the P-Bruins are only four points behind the first-place Hershey Bears and Charlotte Checkers with 63 regular-season games left.

Here’s the good, bad and ugly.

GOOD

— Providence got some more Mikey Magic on Saturday as Mikey Eyssimont scored twice, including the game-winner.  He has scored on 31 percent of his shots and is tied for the AHL lead with 9 goals in 6 games.

— Attilio Biasca scored his first AHL goal and chipped in an assist on Saturday.

— Riley Duran earned sticks taps and fist bumps from his teammates after going down to block a one-time slapper by Utica’s Anton Silayev early in the third period on Saturday with Providence protecting a one-goal lead.

— Captain Billy Sweezey scored his first goal of the season into an empty net and added an assist in Saturday’s win.

— Dans Locmelis assisted on two goals and was plus-2 against Utica.

— Tobie Paquette-Bisson was plus-3 on Saturday. His plus-6 leads the team and is tied for second in the league.

BAD

— The P-Bruins outshot Hartford 35 to 17 on Friday but could not break through against 38-year-old James Reimer.

— They have been blanked twice in their first nine games.

— Providence’s next six games are on the road.

— The P-Bruins have given up the first goal in eight of their nine games.

— The bad-angle goal that Jiri Patera allowed in the first period on Saturday was one that, as the TV guys like to say, he’d like to have back.

UGLY

— The power play went a total of 0 for 6 in the two games. The PP is last in the league at 5.3 percent.

— Injured: Joey Abate, Max Wanner