"We'll turn it around," Bowness said. "We've had a bad 10-game segment, we lost some games we should have won, now we have to go home and figure this out."
Players and coaches alike said everyone has to take a look in the mirror.
"It's just self-reflection time, really, for an individual, as a professional and as an athlete," Cogliano said "We're at a desperation moment to get things going in the right direction, but we play a lot of divisional games, and as fast as you go one way, you can go the other. I think we've all accepted that it's going to be a grind all season to make the playoffs. We're going to have to fight and it's going to come to the end. We have to accept that and it's going to be a lot of hard work from here on out."
Hard work that this team said it knows how to do.
"We're going to play every second day. It's going to be like the playoffs, we're going to see the same team a bunch of times, so not too high, not too low," said defenseman John Klingberg. "We've put ourselves in a worse position than we wanted, so we're going to have to dig out of it.
"This team has faced some adversity in the past, so we've got to find ways to get points and win games."