Those struggles the Vegas Golden Knights were expected to experience as an expansion team are showing up in their second season.The Golden Knights begin a daunting week-long stretch on Sunday night against the Edmonton Oilers at Rogers Place.Vegas (8-11-1) — which was 13-6-1 through its first 20 NHL games last season en route to the Western Conference crown —finds it difficult to repeat that unprecedented success.Article continues below ...Currently seventh in the Pacific Division Womens Brayden Point Jersey , the Knights look to avoid their fourth loss in five games overall after a 4-1 setback to the last-place St. Louis Blues on Friday night. Vegas has also lost eight of its last 10 on the road.Compounding matters is the upcoming schedule. Over the next week, the Golden Knights play five games against Pacific Division foes, including three straight on the road and two sets of back-to-back contests.“Definitely not the position we want to be in,” said Vegas winger Max Pacioretty, who has two goals and two assists in his first season with the club. “You’ve got to win against your division to make the playoffs, and I know we’re very early in the season right now, but we’ve got to string together some wins right now.”The Knights are 2-0-1 within their division.Last season, the team averaged 3.27 goals per game, but has seen that figure dip to 2.45 per contest. William Karlsson, coming off a career-high 43 goals last season, has just four so far. Erik Haula Braydon Coburn Jersey , a 29-goal scorer in the club’s first campaign, is reportedly “month-to-month” with a leg injury and key acquisition Paul Stastny hasn’t played since Oct. 8 (lower-body injury.)Karlsson had two goals versus Edmonton last season — the only Vegas player to score more than one.But the Golden Knights are getting a key performer back. After completing a 20-game ban for violating the league’s policy on performance-enhancing substances, Nate Schmidt is expected to make his season debut. He was second on the team among defensemen in scoring with career highs of five goals and 31 assists, and added seven points (three goals, four assists) in the playoffs.“He’s one of our best players, so he’s going to make a difference all over the ice, I hope,” Vegas coach Gerard Gallant said Friday. “Solid guy, moves the puck, skates well, you know what kind of player he is and he’s a big part of our group.”The Knights went 1-2-1 against the Oilers last season with both regulation losses coming in Alberta.Edmonton (9-9-1) heads home after a 4-2 loss to the Calgary Flames on Saturday night. Alex Chiasson and Connor McDavid scored for the Oilers J.T. Miller Jersey , but backup Mikko Koskinen surrendered two third-period goals and the Oilers dropped to 5-1-0 when leading after 40 minutes.“Every loss stinks, but it was a big game for us and we didn’t get the two points. That’s all that matters,” said center Leon Draisaitl, who assisted on McDavid’s 11th of the season.McDavid has a team-high 10 points (three goals, seven assists) at home in 2018-19 and was the Oilers’ top producer against Vegas last season with eight points (two goals, six assists) in four games. He had a pair of three-point nights in two home matchups with Vegas.“I’d say he’s the best player in the league. He’s a lot of speed and a lot of fast,” Gallant said of the reigning two-time scoring champion who needs two goals for 100 for his career.Cam Talbot has surrendered 14 goals while losing four straight starts for Edmonton. He yielded 11 goals en route to wins in three of four meetings with Vegas.The Oilers, who defeated the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday at Rogers Place, seek consecutive home wins for the first time this season.“We get another chance (Sunday) to win a hockey game. We’ll do everything we can to do so,” Draisaitl said. LAS VEGAS (AP) — J.T. Miller scored his third goal of the season, Andrei Vasilevskiy made 29 saves and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Vegas Golden Knights 3-2 on Friday.Tyler Johnson and Brayden Point also scored for Tampa Bay. The Lightning are 6-0-1 in their last seven to improve to 7-1-1.Shea Theodore and William Karlsson scored for Vegas Authentic Louis Domingue Jersey , and Marc-Andre Fleury made 20 saves.Ten games into their inaugural season, Vegas was 8-2-0. It didn’t lose its fifth game until Nov. 7. Now, the defending Western Conference champions are 4-5-1 and sixth in the Pacific Division.JETS 2, RED WINGS 1DETROIT (AP) — Defenseman Dustin Byfuglien got his 500th career point when he snapped a tie with 6:45 left, and Winnipeg beat Detroit.Winnipeg won for the fourth time in five games. Kyle Connor scored in the second period, and Laurent Brossoit stopped 27 shots.Andreas Athanasiou scored for Detroit and Jimmy Howard made 38 saves. Red Wings defenseman Mike Green made his season debut after recovering from a virus that attacked his liver.HURRICANES 4, SHARKS 3, SORALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Brock McGinn scored in regulation and had the lone shootout goal in Carolina’s victory over San Jose.Carolina outshot San Jose 23-6 from start of the second period to the midpoint of the third and finished with a 41-23 edge. It was the first time the Sharks had been outshot this season.McGinn, Teuvo Teravainen and Dougie Hamilton scored for Carolina in the second period, and Teravainen assisted on Hamilton’s goal. Antti Suomela http://www.officiallightningprostore.com/authentic-adidas-mikhail-sergachev-jersey , Timo Meier and Tomas Hertl scored for the Sharks.Petr Mrazek made 20 saves for Carolina, and Aaron Dell stopped 38 saves for San Jose.AVALANCHE 6, SENATORS 3DENVER (AP) — Gabriel Landeskog broke a tie in Colorado’s four-goal third period and the Avalanche beat Ottawa to spoil a two-goal performance from Matt Duchene in his return to Denver.Landeskog gave Colorado the lead for good by knocking in his ninth goal of the season off a feed from Mikko Rantanen. Colorado outscored the Senators 6-1 after falling behind 2-0 midway through the first.Samuel Girard, Carl Soderberg, Rantanen, Nathan MacKinnon and Matt Nieto also scored for Colorado.Ryan Dzingel also scored for Ottawa.