Coach Lindy Ruff and the Buffalo Sabres have tried everything from benching players to providing extra days off, shuffling lines to even a pep talk from owner Terry Pegula, and nothing has worked to lift the team from its latest double-digit skid.

The one solution forward Dylan Cozens knows won’t work is the Sabres talking their way out of it.

“Looking at every guy in here, we have the team to win and the players to do it,” Cozens said following practice Thursday.

“But we’ve been saying that for awhile now,” he added before punctuating his final comment with a profanity. “It’s about time we go ... do it.”

Frustration is growing as the Sabres continue spiraling. They’re in the midst of an 0-8-3 slump, the NHL’s longest of the season, and fifth-worst for a franchise accustomed to losing over a league-record 13-season playoff drought.

“There’s not much really to say. It sucks,” Cozens said. “Just got to try and put it behind you as much as you can and go out and win.”

The Sabres, who host Toronto today, have gone nearly a month since their last victory — a 4-2 win at San Jose on Nov. 23, which capped three-game west coast sweep. The win pushed Buffalo into third place in the Atlantic Division standings and seventh in the Eastern Conference.

What’s followed is an ugly string of losses that’s dropped Buffalo (11-17-4) to last in the East, with the Sabres having as many wins as the Pegula-owned Buffalo Bills (11-3).

It’s a skid in which the Sabres have lost six one-goal games, been blown out and blown leads in being outscored 44-24. The low point was a 5-4 loss to Colorado on Dec. 3 in which Buffalo became the 90th team in NHL history to squander a four-plus goal lead.

Ruff, back for a second stint in Buffalo, vowed after the loss to Colorado that it was on him to not let it snowball. And yet, following a 5-3 loss at Toronto on Sunday, Ruff acknowledged: “I’m almost lost for words.”

Two days later in Montreal, and a day after Pegula addressed the team to assure players the answers lies within the room, the Sabres responded with a 6-1 dud. It was an outing the Canadiens opened the scoring 19 seconds in when a shot wide of the net caromed back into the middle after hitting an official’s skate.

“That was really a tough one,” Ruff said Thursday. “You would have liked to have seen a lot bigger response.”

Ruff is but the latest in a line of six Sabres coaches who followed his firing 11 years ago to be dealing with a lengthy skid.

Nine of Buffalo’s 20 longest streaks in which the Sabres failed to register a point have occurred since 2013-14. And five of the team’s 15 longest winless streaks have happened over the same time, including a franchise-worst 0-15-3 skid during the 2021 season.

LIGHTNING 3, BLUES 1: Nikita Kucherov had a pair of assists to lead Tampa Bay over St. Louis. Anthony Cirelli, Gage Goncalves and Nick Perbix scored for the Lightning, who have won six of their last seven. Andrei Vasilevskiy finished with 31 saves in the win.

BLUE JACKETS 4, DEVILS 2: Sean Monahan had two goals and an assist, Elvis Merzlikins stopped a season-high 40 shots and Columbus snapped a five-game skid. Ivan Provorov and Zach Werenski also scored for Columbus, which has won only two of its last 10 games.

BLACKHAWKS 3, KRAKEN 1: Ilya Mikheyev scored twice, Arvid Soderblom made 27 saves and Chicago beat Seattle for its third straight win. Teuvo Teravainen had two assists as Chicago closed out a perfect e homestand — its first three-game win streak since they won five in a row in February 2023.

PENGUINS 5, PREDATORS 4, OT: Bryan Rust scored his second goal of the game 1:07 into overtime and Sidney Crosby had a season-high four points to lead Pittsburgh. Rust also had two assists and Crosby finished with a goal and three assists to snap a 10-game goal drought.

OILERS 3, BRUINS 2, OT: Connor McDavid tied it late in the third period and Mattias Ekholm notched the game-winner 1:04 into overtime as Edmonton rallied past Boston.

SENATORS 3, FLAMES 2, OT: Brady Tkachuk scored 55 seconds into overtime as Ottawa won a back-and-forth game in Calgary. Linus Ullmark made 29 saves — and assisted on the winner — for the Senators, who won for the fifth time in a row.

GOLDEN KNIGHTS 3, CANUCKS 1: William Karlsson scored the go-ahead goal early in the third period and Adin Hill backstopped Vegas’ win over Vancouver with 20 saves.