Hamilton extends point streak to 13, Hurricanes top Blue Jackets in OT

COLUMBUS -- Dougie Hamilton extended his point streak to 13 games for the Carolina Hurricanes in 4-3 overtime win against the Columbus Blue Jackets at Nationwide Arena on Thursday.

Sebastian Aho scored the winner off a pass by Martin Necas at 1:26.
The Blue Jackets tied it 3-3 with 16 seconds left in the third period on a goal by Oliver Bjorkstrand with Joonas Korpisalo pulled after Nino Niederreiter gave the Hurricanes a 3-2 lead at 15:42.
Hamilton had the secondary assist on Niederreiter's goal. The defenseman has scored 15 points (two goals, 13 assists) during the point streak that ties Auston Matthews of the Toronto Maple Leafs for the longest in the NHL this season.
"It was a very tough game overall for us," Niederreiter said. "We didn't play the way we wanted to play but we found a way to win."

Alex Nedeljkovic made 33 saves for the Hurricanes (22-7-3), who won the last two of the four-game set following 3-2 overtime and shootout wins for Columbus at Carolina. The Hurricanes won 3-0 here Monday.
"That's a big point for us," Blue Jackets coach John Tortorella said. "Four games against one of the top teams in the League. We go 2-1-1 against them. We come back and tie it up late and the two periods we played are probably two of the best we played all year long. I hope it keeps propelling us."
Cam Atkinson scored and had an assist, Seth Jones had two assists and Korpisalo made 29 saves for the Blue Jackets (13-13-8).
"We know that we are on the right track here, we really are," Columbus captain Nick Foligno said. "It's a really good team we played four times in a row and got a lot of points off of them."
Zach Werenski gave Columbus a 1-0 lead at 7:03 of the second period. He was on the rush when his pass through the crease could not be converted by Kevin Stenlund. Werenski gathered the puck from behind the goal line and banked a shot off the right shoulder of Nedeljkovic.
Cedric Paquette made it 1-1 at 7:49. A shot from the right point by Brady Skjei went off Paquette to his skates.
Necas scored on a wraparound to make it 2-1 at 17:16. He has scored in two straight games and has seven goals for the season.
"Our team knows how good he is," Aho said. "Maybe the media doesn't know about him but our team for sure does."

Atkinson made it 2-2 with his first power-play goal of the season at 3:20 of the third. His shot from the right wall deflected off Hamilton and the left post. He has 12 goals to tie Bjorkstrand for the Blue Jackets lead.
At 8:37, Nedeljkovic gloved a backhand by Max Domi on a breakaway.
"He got us the two points tonight, plain and simple," Carolina coach Rod Brind'Amour said. "He made some real big saves that allowed us to hang around and get two points."
Niederreiter's goal came after Jordan Staal won the draw to Hamilton at the right point. He passed across to Jaccob Slavin and Niederreiter was in front for the redirect.
"We got a good face-off win," Niederreiter said. "We knew we had to get pucks to the net and go there. I'm glad I got rewarded and had a chance to win the game."
At 19:05, Jones got a stick on a shot by Warren Foegele and the puck went wide of the empty net to allow Columbus to tie it seconds later.
"We find a way to get one," Werenski said. "There's no time to sit here and feel sorry for ourselves that we didn't get a second.
"I thought we played a good hockey game. There's a lot of things we can take from that game and build on and there's still some things we have to clean up."