Rick Nash scored the Columbus Blue Jackets' third goal in a 2:41 span of the third period to beat Carolina 3-2 Saturday night, the Hurricanes' franchise-record 12th consecutive game without a win.

Nikita Filatov and Jared Boll also scored goals for the Blue Jackets, who have picked up points in their last five games. Goalie Steve Mason, who had 24 saves, assisted on Boll's go-ahead goal.

Erik Cole and Tim Gleason had goals for Carolina, which lost goalie Cam Ward who was cut by a skate during the first period and taken by ambulance to a hospital for further evaluation.

The Hurricanes, who lost their sixth in a row overall, have not won since a 7-2 victory over Florida on Oct. 9. Since then, they have gone 0-9-3, eclipsing an 11-game winless streak in 2003. They are also winless in their last nine road games (0-7-2) and remain the only NHL team without a victory away from home.

Carolina led 1-0 going into the third period _ only the second time all season they've led with one period left. Columbus was 0-4 when trailing through two periods.

The Blue Jackets made short work of the deficit.

Fifty seconds in, Carolina's Brandon Sutter fanned on a clearing attempt and Derek Dorsett's blind, no-look centering feed found Filatov who was crashing the net.

Just over 2 minutes later, Boll was skating along the short boards in front of the Carolina bench when Joe Corvo lost his stick while trying to poke the puck away. Boll sped past Corvo and was all alone with Ward's replacement, Michael Leighton, beating him inside the near post for his first of the year.

Hurricanes coach Paul Maurice called a timeout to settle his team, which was coming off a 3-2 loss at home to Toronto on Friday night.

Another 36 seconds later, Nash intercepted Tim Gleason's pass for Zach Boychuk deep in the defensive zone. Nash coasted in and slipped the puck into the net for his 11th. Continued...