Break out those measuring sticks, Bruins fans. Your team has one of those games on Sunday.

The B’s are feeling good about themselves, and they have legitimate reasons for that. They managed to weather what some would have thought to be an apocalyptic combination of injuries to Charlie McAvoy and David Pastrnak, keeping their heads just above the water line until their two stars returned last week. Now they’re riding a four-game win streak that has put them firmly in the playoff hunt.

There is no asterisk required for their current run of success. Every team has play the schedule in front of them. The B’s have indeed scored some wins over good teams this season, including Colorado, Carolina, Washington and the Islanders (three times for the season sweep).

But the last four games were ones a playoff team should win, coming against teams struggling with injuries and/or identity in St. Louis (twice), New Jersey and Winnipeg.

Their opponent on Sunday, the Minnesota Wild, are both hot and feeling good about themselves – so good that GM Bill Guerin sold off a good chunk of his future for a present-day payoff, landing the extremely talented Quinn Hughes in Friday night’s blockbuster trade. Hughes is expected to make his Wild debut on Sunday against the B’s (5 p.m.).

When this three-game trip began, four out of six points would have been a reasonable goal. Now that they’ve already got the four, they want more.

“To finish off the this road trip 3-0 would be huge. Our mindset is to go in there and get another win, grind it out and continue to play well,” Casey Mittelstadt told reporters in Minnesota on Saturday.

But it won’t be easy. After their win over the Senators on Saturday, the Wild are 9-0-2 in their last 11 at home.

Guerin had to give up essentially four first-rounders – the club’s first-round picks Zeev Buium, Marco Rossi and Liam Oghren, plus the team’s 2026 first-round pick – to get the 2024 Norris Trophy winner to St. Paul. The fact that there is no extension in place for Hughes, who has just one more year on his deal, tells you all you need to know about how Guerin feels about his team in the here and now.

They’re third in the ultra-competitive Central Division behind the juggernaut Avalanche and the Stars, and they just beat Dallas on Thursday.

The Wild, with Hughes in the fold, now seem to have all the tools, including a couple of stars up front in Kirill Kaprizov and Matt Boldy, another excellent young defenseman in Brock Faber and a surging young goalie in Jesper Wallstedt, who got the win on Saturday.

The Bruin players had their mandated day off on Friday, but coach Marco Sturm brought them in for a no-nonsense practice on Saturday at a local St. Paul rink.

“Even if you win a few games, nothing should change. I always liked that about the Bruins and that’s something we all want to continue,” said Sturm. “We still have a job to do (Sunday). They made a pretty aggressive trade (Friday) night, so we just have to make sure we’re ready to go because that building will be buzzing.”

Hughes, naturally, will be a focal point.

“Those players are special. I always say you almost have to treat him like a (Cale) Makar. You always have to be aware of when he’s on the ice,” said Sturm. “I think it will fit our style. We want to play hard against him. Don’t give him that room. And try to keep him off the special teams, off the power play, too.”

Though the B’s got back Pastrnak and McAvoy, they lost Viktor Arvidsson (upper body) and Jonathan Aspirot (lower body) in the win over Winnipeg. Sturm said that he doesn’t expect either to play on Sunday and that they’ll get a better idea of a prognosis when the team returns to Boston on Monday.

But the B’s have dealt with injuries before. And they feel good about how they’re playing the hybrid man/zone system. That’s been more evident with how the B’s have been able to close out wins recently.

“We’re figuring it out,” said Mittelstadt, from nearby Eden Prairie. “The big thing is knowing when to pressure and when to back off. That’s the in-between that you have to figure out. Maybe it took us a bit longer than we wanted, but I think guys are starting to feel comfortable in where they need to be and what their job is. I think Marco has done a good job in making that clear and that’s all you can ask for in a coach.”

Loose pucks

Pavel Zacha did not practice on Saturday in Minnesota but Sturm called it a maintenance day and he will be available on Sunday. … With Victor Soderstrom available on defense and Jeffrey Viel and Mikey Eyssimont at Sturm’s disposal up front, the coach didn’t expect any call-ups for Sunday. … Marat Khusnutdinov, who came to the Bruins in the Justin Brazeau trade, will be playing his first game back in Minnesota. He was a Wild second-round pick (37th overall) in 2020.