Two struggling teams will meet in Las Vegas on Saturday night Ben Bishop Jersey , when the Vegas Golden Knights host the Carolina Hurricanes.The Hurricanes showed heart on Friday night by overcoming a 3-0 deficit to force overtime and earn a point, but they ended up with a 4-3 overtime loss to the Arizona Coyotes.It was the third straight loss for Carolina, which has lost six of its past eight games.Article continues below ...Hurricanes winger Sebastian Aho had his assist streak broken Friday, leaving him one shy of the NHL record after he was held without a point for the first time this season. He was trying to become the first player in NHL history with a 13-game assist streak to open a season. Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers in 1982-83, and Ken Linseman of the Boston Bruins in 1985-86 each had 12. Aho has four goals and 13 assists for the season.“We’ve got to be ready to start that game. We can’t give ourselves that hole to dig out of,” Hurricanes forward Jordan Martinook said on the team’s website. “On the other side of it, it just shows the attitude in this room that we won’t quit. We fight until the very last second. One point is huge, but we wanted that second one.”Martinook, Andrei Svechnikov and Jordan Staal tallied goals for the Hurricanes, but Michael Grabner won it for the Coyotes in 3-on-3 overtime.“The boys dug in and found a way to get a point, to battle back and show some character in the way we want to play http://www.officialstarsproonline.com/authentic-adidas-brett-ritchie-jersey ,” Staal said.The three straight losses all have been by one-goal margins, but the recent results have not been good for Carolina, which won four of its first five games to start the season but is now 6-5-2.Vegas (5-7-1) got to the Stanley Cup Finals as an expansion team last season, but the Golden Knights find themselves in seventh place in the Pacific Division heading into Saturday’s action.They have lost two straight games, including Thursday’s 5-3 loss to St. Louis, and have dropped four of their last five. The only win in that span was an overtime victory over Ottawa last Sunday.Vegas is 29th in the league in scoring, having scored 30 times in 13 games. “I don’t think this is about anybody except us. It’s not about the other teams right now it’s about our team,” said Vegas center Erik Haula on the team’s website. “Consistently, we keep making the same kind of mistakes and we aren’t playing a full game. That’s the problem, it doesn’t matter who we’re playing. We’re at the bottom of the barrel right now. Nobody is in a good mood. But it’s not going to come easy. We have to really dig in.”Max Pacioretty and Paul Stastny have been out with injuries and Nate Schmidt has been unavailable due to a suspension. Pacioretty (upper body) has missed the past three games and remains day-to-day with no timetable for his return. Stastny (lower body) won’t be back for at least another month.“We have times in the game when we play the right way and other times when we don’t, and it ends up costing us big time Adam Clendening Jersey Womens ,” Pierre-Edouard Bellemare.said. “We’re going to have to figure out how to play a full 60 minutes because right now, 40 is nowhere near close enough.”Alex Tuch had a goal and an assist in the loss to the Blues, and Vegas’ leading scorer, Jonathan Marchessault, picked up an assist, giving him 13 points (six goals, seven assists) for the season. Now that the Edmonton Oilers are back home, their immediate focus is on ending a three-game losing streak in which they gave up an average of more than four goals per game.Continuing to slow down their next opponent’s top line can go a long way toward getting back in the win column.Edmonton looks to extend the Colorado Avalanche’s skid Sunday night when the teams hit the ice at Rogers Place in the first of three meetings this season.Article continues below ...The Oilers opened a four-game road trip with a narrow victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Nov. 3 before losing to the Washington Capitals, Tampa Bay Lightning and Florida Panthers by a combined 13-5.“You never want to lose, but you never want to lose three in a row,” winger Ryan Nugent-Hopkins said Saturday. “We can’t let it be four in a row. Good teams don’t let that happen Devin Shore Jersey , so we’ve got to respond well tomorrow.”Coach Todd McLellan said he believes that scoring chances were there but that the club just could not capitalize.“When you look at just the goal total itself, you’re going ‘Jeez, they’re not creating anything’,” McLellan said Saturday. “In each of the games that we lost on the road trip, I thought we created numerous opportunities.”Edmonton (8-7-1) took five of a possible six points from Colorado last season, and is looking for two wins in a row at home over the Avalanche for the first time since 2013.Colorado (7-6-3) is trying to avoid its sixth straight loss after falling 5-2 to the Winnipeg Jets on Friday night. After a 6-1-2 start, the Avalanche are 1-5-1, allowing 29 goals in that span.“I think leaders on this team got to get on this now,” Colorado defenseman Erik Johnson said. “We’ve got to stop the bleeding and string some wins together here.”A reason for the Avalanche’s struggles is decreased production from the top line of Mikko Rantanen, Gabriel Landeskog and Nathan MacKinnon.The trio caught the attention of fans when they combined for 20 goals and 23 assists over the first nine games of the season. They’ve totaled seven goals and 14 assists in seven games since.“The best thing to do is just play in the offensive zone. Don’t give them a chance to start creating and feeling good about their games,” Nugent-Hopkins said.The player among the three to have the biggest downturn is MacKinnon. The top overall pick in the 2013 NHL Draft tallied 15 points (eight goals Womens Esa Lindell Jersey , seven assists) during Colorado’s hot start, but has seven points (three goals, four assists) in the club’s slump.“It’s no fun right now, but we have to get right back on it, play on Sunday and try to dig ourselves out,” Johnson said.Another key for the Avalanche is to get off to a quick start on the scoreboard. The club has trailed after one period in four of the last seven games.Then there’s trying to slow down Connor McDavid. The two-time scoring champion has scored six of his seven goals versus Colorado in the last three meetings and also has eight assists in eight games against the Avalanche.McDavid, who has points in 14 of 16 games this season, notched his fourth career hat trick in Edmonton’s 4-2 win over Colorado on Feb. 18 in Denver.Colorado’s Tyson Barrie needs one assist to reach 200 for his career. He will try to join Adam Foote (203) and John-Michael Liles (207) as the only defensemen in club history with 200 helpers.