NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Wild insist they’re taking it one game at a time as they try to dig out of a deep early hole under new head coach John Hynes.

So far, so good.

Connor Dewar scored his first NHL hat trick, Kirill Kaprizov had a goal and assist as Minnesota dismantled the Nashville Predators on Thursday at Bridgestone Arena for the second victory in as many games under Hynes.

Jake Middleton and Pat Maroon also scored goals, and Filip Gustavsson stopped 24 shots as Minnesota won consecutive games for just the second time this season. The Wild ended a seven-game skid on Tuesday with a 3-1 victory over St. Louis at Xcel Energy Center.

It was Minnesota’s 15th victory in 43 games at the Predators’ arena (15-22-7) since joining the NHL for the 2001-02 season.

Dewar scored a fourth goal on a power play goal with 3 minutes, 57 seconds remaining, but Nashville coach Andrew Brunette challenged for an offsides call and won.

The Wild were ready from the jump and kept the Predators from establishing their forecheck early before Marco Rossi was called for hooking at 3:58. Minnesota, however, killed the penalty to help it keep its momentum and took the game’s first lead.

On a quick rush with Dewar and Rossi, Brandon Duhaime launched a slap shot from the right point, and Dewar muscled a juicy rebound past Juuse Saros for a 1-0 lead at 6:08.

Middleton made it 2-0 when he skated the puck into the bottom left circle and pushed a backhander past Saros at 14:01, and Nashville coach Brunette challenged for an offsides call. Instead, he got a delay-of-game penalty and on the ensuing power play, Kaprizov scored to make it 3-0 at 14:32.

Maroon deflected an Alex Goligoski slap shot past Saros to make it 4-0 just 1:43 into the second period, and Brunette pulled Saros for Kevin Lankinen. But the Wild expanded their lead midway through the period.

Kaprizov won a neutral zone battle and took the puck into the Predators’ zone. Dewar raced into the zone, and Kaprizov quickly sent him the puck between the circles. After bringing the puck to his forehand, Dewar beat Lankinen clean for a 5-0 lead at 11:12.

It had to be demoralizing for the Predators, who finally got their forecheck going in the second period, only to be stymied by Gustavsson at every turn. They finally got on the board when Juuso Parssinen deflected Ryan McDonaugh’s shot from the circle 2:37 into the third period.

Minnesota’s penalty kill was 3 for 3 after going 4 for 4 against the Blues on Tuesday. On Monday, they had the NHL’s worst penalty kill with 23 goals-against and a 66.7 percent success rate.