COLUMBUS, Ohio – Rostislav Klesla scored from a hard angle in a wild final minute of overtime to give the Columbus Blue Jackets a 4-3 victory over Edmonton.

A capacity crowd began to prematurely celebrate seconds after Oilers goaltender Dwayne Roloson was knocked to the ice by a teammate as he came out to handle the puck, resulting in Nikolai Zherdev’s almost point-blank shot into an empty net.

But the puck bounced and he was unable to get off a good shot.

With the crowd still roaring, Klesla retrieved the puck behind the goal line in the left corner and threw a shot at the still reeling Roloson. The puck ricocheted in off him for only the second winning goal of Klesla’s career.

Zherdev and linemate Sergei Fedorov each had a goal and an assist for Columbus, with Trevor Letowski adding a goal.

Ryan Smyth, Jaroslav Spacek and Michael Peca had goals for the Oilers, who hadn’t lost in Columbus in more than four years. They blew two two-goal leads and lost for only the second time (against 16 wins) when leading after two periods.

Sergei Samsonov had two assists in his Oilers debut after being acquired in a trade with Boston on Thursday. Ales Hemsky also had two assists for Edmonton, 7-0-4 in its previous 11 games against the Blue Jackets.

Roloson fell to 0-2 since he was acquired Wednesday from Minnesota.

Edmonton dominated the first period before Columbus turned the tables in the second.

Samsonov made a pinpoint, power-play pass across the slot to Smyth, who was all alone at the right corner of the goal mouth for his 30th goal that opened the scoring.

Spacek, formerly of the Blue Jackets, took a power-play pass from Hemsky for a one-timer from the top of the right circle to make it 2-0.

The Oilers outshot Columbus 15-4 in the opening period.

The Blue Jackets cut it to 2-1 early in the second period when Jason Chimera dug the puck off the back wall and backhanded a centering pass that Letowski converted for his ninth goal.

Columbus made it through 33 seconds with a two-man disadvantage only to have Edmonton expand the lead to two goals on a strange play. Raffi Torres’ shot was blocked but it glanced off the skate of a Blue Jackets defenseman directly to Peca, who swooped in on goaltender Marc Denis for his eighth goal.

The Blue Jackets cut it to 3-2 when Fedorov’s crisp one-timer from the high slot eluded Roloson.

Columbus outshot the Oilers 17-5 in the second period and 27-12 over the last two periods and overtime.

The Blue Jackets tied it midway through the third period on another quirky goal. Fedorov took a pass from Rick Nash and hammered the puck at Roloson, who seemed to cover it. But with the puck loose and between his legs, he stood up and looked around for it. Zherdev skated from behind the net and jammed the puck in while Roloson had his head turned.

Zherdev has scored in eight of 12 games.

Notes: Syracuse, the Blue Jackets’ AHL affiliate, acquired Fedorov’s younger brother, Fedor, on loan from the New York Rangers. Fedorov has played 38 games with Hartford of the AHL this season. … The game drew a crowd of 18,136, Columbus’ eighth sellout this season.

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