MANALAPAN, Fla. — One week ago, the Minnesota Wild were coming off a stretch in which they got 5 out of 6 points against the Tampa Bay Lightning, Vegas Golden Knights and Colorado Avalanche. But in pro sports, if you start to feel good about yourself, as the adage goes, “just wait a week.”

After one more win, a shutout of the Utah Mammoth, the Wild have dropped three consecutive games to non-playoff teams — the Philadelphia Flyers, New York Rangers and Toronto Maple Leafs — all at home.

Two of those games came against teams playing on the second night of back-to-backs with travel; the Flyers arrived late Thursday morning after spending 2 1/2 hours on the tarmac in Philadelphia because of storms in their flight path.

Coach John Hynes did his best to quiet the outside noise after Sunday’s loss to Toronto, but president of hockey operations and general manager Bill Guerin turned up the heat Monday when he sat down with The Athletic after Day 1 of the three-day GM meetings.

“Anytime it’s this late in the year and you’re losing three in a row, you have concerns,” Guerin said. “I think there’s a solution to it. We’re trying to figure out what that is, but it’s time for our players to reset.

“I need to see more urgency from everybody. Like, it’s not acceptable the way we’ve played the last three games. We’ve continually, year after year after year, raised the standard of play, raised the standard of expectations, and we’re not meeting it right now.”

Players keep saying that all teams go through this, but the dog days of the season should have occurred back in January. Guerin doesn’t want a repeat of last season, when the Wild lost 10 of 15 games after the trade deadline (5-7-3) before winning four of their final five.

The Wild, who traveled Monday to begin a home-and-home series with the Chicago Blackhawks, are 1-2-2 in their past five and 4-4-2 since the Olympic break. Secondary scoring is becoming an issue beyond Kirill Kaprizov and Matt Boldy, and the top pair of Quinn Hughes and Brock Faber is starting to bleed chances.

“As a group, we need to tighten things up,” Guerin said. “We’re too loose right now, and that’s everybody.”

Guerin is confident in the team he has built, from getting Hughes in a blockbuster back in mid-December to working around the edges with pickups of Michael McCarron, Bobby Brink, Nick Foligno and others at the deadline after being unable to land a top-six center.

He says the recent slip is not an indication that the Wild can’t win with the current cast of players, especially up the middle.

“Listen, we’ve proven over the course of this year that we can play with the best, we can beat the best, we can be the best,” Guerin said. “I think people like to say, ‘Yeah, they need a No. 1 center.’ Well, we couldn’t get one. We just could not get one. So this is our team, and I feel we can win with it, and I think, most importantly, the guys in that room feel we can win with it. But for that to happen, it’s important they start to button things up and play with some urgency.”

Guerin’s use of the word “urgency” is deliberate because he sees what Wild fans see, and that’s a team that frustrates too often against non-playoff teams but seems to get up for the big games.

The Wild are 18-11-6 against non-playoff teams this year and have dropped eight of their past 10 (2-5-3) at home against those teams.

“Our winning percentage is like .720 versus playoff teams, and then you get the non-playoff teams, and it’s like .620,” Guerin said. “We need to have more urgency in our game. We don’t want to be limping into the playoffs. So, it’s not a panic. But the way we’ve played lately is just a matter of fact. I have no problem telling the guys this, and Hynesy knows. He’s going to change things to try to get us back together. But this takes a concerted effort by the individuals that are playing the game.”

Guerin reiterated what Hynes said after Saturday’s loss to the Rangers: that the Wild are looking internally at their routines. Few teams practice as infrequently as they do. Lately, they’ve even held optional morning skates the day after days off, which is abnormal even by their standards.

“We’re not getting results the way things are going right now,” Guerin said. “So, we need to change things and help the guys get through this. You can’t threaten guys to play better. It’s our job to help them get out of this. We are in this with them, but they need to take some ownership and realize the way they played these games and the outcomes are not acceptable and up to our standards, especially with the playoffs right around the corner.”