In year two of a rebuild, the Calgary Flames have a slew of promising young forwards. However, they’ve struggled to create the offence the Flames have needed all season.

Management’s confidence in its surprising team is warranted, based on its play this season. Calgary enters its game at the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday (7 p.m. ET; FDSNSUN, SNP, SNW) trailing the Vancouver Canucks by one point for the second wild card into the playoffs from the Western Conference.

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. Jaccob Slavin also scored for the Hurricanes and Pyotr Kochetkov made 15 saves,

Joel Hanley and Kevin Rooney scored for the Flames (27-21-8), who had lost three straight and four of five. Dustin Wolf made 27 saves. "Found a way. ... Found a way," Kadri said. "That was really what it was all about today. I don't think it was our best game at all. I think the execution was a little bit sloppy, but we found a way and dug in."

Both the Flames and the Hurricanes have struggled to score coming out of the 4 Nations break, and our NHL betting picks expect the respective goal droughts to continue in Carolina tonight.

Andrei Vasilevskiy made 27 saves for his fourth shutout of the season and the 38th of his career in the Tampa Bay Lightning’s 3-0 victory over the Calgary Flames on Thursday night.

The Flames are headed on a six-game road trip that could catapult them into the playoffs or make them sellers at the NHL trade deadline.

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.

Saturday afternoon promises to be an emotional day in Sunrise as the Calgary Flames visit the Florida Panthers.

The defenseman has put at least three pucks on net in three straight games and six of his last eight contests, averaging 3.25 shots per game over that span. He's also logged a team-high 25:06 of ice time per game over the last month, so he should have plenty of opportunity to cash this for us tonight.