The Minnesota Wild are red hot.

So, too, is New York Rangers coach Alain Vigneault. For a completely different reason.

Mikko Koivu, Nino Niederreiter and Marco Scandella scored in a 5-minute span early in the second period, and the Wild beat the Rangers 7-4 on Friday night for their franchise-record 10th straight win.

“I think that’s pretty cool,” Minnesota coach Bruce Boudreau said. “Anytime you do something that is a record, it’s great. The way we had to do it, winning games nine and 10 in Montreal and New York, I think was pretty special.”

Mikael Granlund, Jason Zucker, Matt Dumba and Charlie Coyle also scored for the Wild (21-8-4), who chased Henrik Lundqvist with four goals on 13 shots.

Coyle added three assists, while Koivu and Zucker had three points apiece. Eric Staal (two assists) and Granlund both finished with two points.

“The pucks are going in,” Koivu said. “We’ve been able to play (well) throughout the year.”

Darcy Kuemper made 31 saves in his seventh start of the season. His most notable stop was a diving, sprawling, glove save on a loose puck in the blue paint 6 1/2 minutes into the third period.

While the Wild are surging, New York dropped to 23-12-1 with its second consecutive loss in regulation.

Chris Kreider scored twice for the Rangers, who also got goals from Ryan McDonagh and Derek Stepan.

“There’s no excuse,” said Vigneault, who hinted he could make lineup changes. “We had one line — (Stepan’s) line — bring out their ‘A’ game and the rest weren’t good enough from the goaltender on out.”