"The Carolina Hurricanes were on the brink Friday. On the brink and teetering. And then Erik Cole delivered They were ever-so-close to a killer loss to the New York Islanders. They may have been ever-so-close to seeing their Stanley Cup playoff hopes begin to wither had there been another tough home-ice defeat. And then Erik Cole delivered to tie the score 2-2 with 4:37 left in regulation. And then defenseman Joni Pitkanen scored at 3:58 of overtime, on a bomb of a shot, to win it 3-2. "Everybody knows what's at stake," goaltender Cam Ward said. "This game could have possibly been our season." But this night, the goal-starved Canes found a way to score goals and found a way to win before a crowd of 17,686 at the RBC Center. Carolina (33-29-10) pulled even with the eighth-place Buffalo Sabres in the NHL's Eastern Conference with 76 points, although the Sabres have two games in hand." Read more: http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/03/19/1064407/hurricanes-come-back-in-the-clutch.html
