Winnipeg Jets head coach Scott Arniel isn't thinking about his future with the team following a ninth straight loss Sunday against the Carolina Hurricanes.
Arniel said the Jets' 7-0 defeat to the reigning Stanley Cup champions was "pretty embarrassing as an organization" but that his job security isn't up to him.
"It's not on my mind," Arniel said postgame. "I'm not worrying about (it). I've been in this game a long, long time, and that's beyond my control. My job is to get these players ready to go. I gotta just keep doing my job, because I'm telling them to keep doing their jobs."
The Jets haven't won a game since Oct. 13 when they beat the Minnesota Wild. They've been outscored 37-16 throughout their nine-game skid. Winnipeg owns a 4-8-3 record and sits seventh in the Central Division.
Jets captain Adam Lowry said he expects the team will make changes if the losing streak continues.
"If it goes on, there's gonna be changes for sure," Lowry said. "If you don't start winning, you gotta find the answers somewhere. ... As players, our job is to go out and execute the game plan, but we gotta execute it."
The Jets gave up four goals in the second period alone against the Hurricanes.
"It's just not good enough," Lowry said. "We come out, we have decent starts. ... We go into the locker room (down) 1-0 against a very good team, and then we come out and we give up two right away, and the wheels fall off. That's kind of been the story of the streak. We've hung our goalies out to dry. Everything facet of the game hasn't been good enough for us."
He added: "There's been spurts of where we've liked what our game looks like, but you can't play 15, 20 minutes in this league. Teams are too good. You gotta put together a full 60 minutes - or as close to (it) as you can - to give yourself a chance to win, and we haven't been doing that."
When asked if the players "are still listening to the message," Arniel didn't give a direct answer.
"That's your decision to make on that call," Arniel said. "For me, I'm doing everything I possibly can with my coaching staff to hopefully get these guys ready to go. But once the puck drops and once it's on the other side of the ice, on the boards there, these guys have to also take some responsibility as well."
