With the NHL’s Eastern Conference tightening up, the Hurricanes went into Sunday’s game just six points ahead of the Detroit Red Wings, who held the second wild-card playoff spot.

Sebastian Aho's fifth overtime goal of the season came 3:16 into in the extra session as the Carolina Hurricanes defeated the Calgary Flames 2-1 on Sunday.

The Carolina Hurricanes entered Sunday night's game against the Calgary Flames at Lenovo Center in Raleigh having won only one of their previous four games, going 1-3 during that span.

Sebastian Aho netted the overtime winner, his fifth of the season and 16th of his career, Jaccob Slavin had a goal and an assist and Pyotr Kochetkov stopped 15 shots in the win. After the game ...

Jaccob Slavin also scored for the Hurricanes ... that reached more than 171 minutes and covered parts of four games. Dustin Wolf made 31 saves. Carolina went 0 for 6 on the power play, including ...