The Wild won’t exactly limp into Sunday’s game at Seattle, the last in a four-game road trip that already has taken them through western Canada. But they’ll do so after being reminded that, in some ways, they’re still the team that lost 11 of 13 games and got their head coach fired.

Under John Hynes, the Wild found a new lease on life, another gear and a tweaked system that plays to their strengths, and it all showed during an impressive, four-game winning streak. The Wild outscored their opponents 18-5 overall, 9-1 in the first period, and never trailed.

That changed in a 2-0 loss at Vancouver, the team’s first shutout loss of the season, and in Friday night’s 4-3 loss in Edmonton to the streaking Oilers.

“We weren’t going to win all games to the end, right?” goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury said after making a season-high 36 saves against the Oilers. “Still need to progress, still need to learn from our mistakes, and still need to get better and do John’s systems and thoughts.”

“I think we’ll do that,” the veteran added. “I think we’ll be fine.”

Seattle, tied with the Wild near the bottom of the Western Conference with 22 points on Saturday, is host to Tampa Bay on Saturday after losing five of its past six games (1-4-1).

There were things to like in the Wild’s past two games, something it was hard to say about many of those that led to Dean Evason’s dismissal on Nov. 27.

The first 15 minutes in Vancouver were among the best Minnesota has played all season, and the Wild ultimately held the league’s highest-scoring team to a pair of goals on home ice. In Edmonton on Friday, they rallied to take two leads with three second-period goals before a power-play goal sent the Oilers to their sixth straight win.

“We’ve won together and had four really good games, and now we hit a little bit of adversity.” Hynes said. “But this is what you’re going to do. It’s about finding ways to respond, and you have to grow through certain situations together.

“It’s not like … from Game 21 to 82 was going to be all great. Now we’ve lost two. So, that’s all part of us getting better. The faster that those things happen, the better we’re going to be able to jell as a group and get our way to where we can be much more consistent in what we’re doing.”

One potential wrench into the works is an apparent lower body injury to Jonas Brodin, one of the NHL’s best blue liners. He had his head slammed into the boards on a reckless — and unpenalized — hit by Evander Kane on Friday and hobbled off favoring his right leg.

Hynes said after the game he didn’t have a status report on Brodin, and because the Wild had a day off in Seattle on Saturday, there was no update. Losing Brodin for any amount of time would be an unwelcome development.

Brodin and rookie Brock Faber have been the Wild’s top shut-down pair, and each is a team-high plus-7. He plays on both special teams units and leads the team with 62 blocked shots.

The Wild played the first 14 games of the season without defenseman Jared Spurgeon, injured in a preseason game, and struggled without him.

“Brodes is a huge part of our team, a difference-maker,” winger Matt Boldy said Friday night. “He plays so many minutes, so many good minutes against top lines. Obviously that stinks.”

Kane has been suspended or fined seven times since 2014 for on-ice infractions, twice for boarding. As of Saturday afternoon, the NHL’s player safety committee had not made any statement on his hit on Brodin.

Wild forward Ryan Hartman confronted Kane on the ice and took a swing at him, apparently trying to get the Oilers’ wing to fight. Instead, Kane went to the ice and Hartman was penalized for roughing. Evan Bouchard scored the game-winning goal on the ensuing power play.