[Gotham Dark Knight]

Edmonton 3
Columbus 4 (OT)
oring Summary
1st Period
Edmonton
8:46, Ryan Smyth 30 (power play) (Sergei Samsonov, Ales Hemsky)

Edmonton
12:15, Jaroslav Spacek 9 (power play) (Ales Hemsky, Sergei Samsonov)

2nd Period
Columbus
4:07, Trevor Letowski 9 (Jason Chimera, Manny Malhotra)

Edmonton
14:28, Michael Peca 8 (Raffi Torres, Steve Staios)

Columbus
15:45, Sergei Fedorov 7 (Nikolai Zherdev)

3rd Period
Columbus
9:43, Nikolai Zherdev 24 (Sergei Fedorov, Rick Nash)

OT Period
Columbus
4:06, Rostislav Klesla 5 (Nikolai Zherdev, Sergei Fedorov)



March 11, 2006
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Even those standing closest to the winning goal were bewildered. "I still don't know how it went in," Columbus' Trevor Letowski said of Rostislav Klesla shot from a hard angle in a wild final minute of overtime that gave the Blue Jackets a 4-3 victory over Edmonton on Saturday night.A capacity crowd began to prematurely celebrate seconds after Oilers goaltender Dwayne Rolosonwas 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.


Down 3-1 in the 2nd, Columbus mounts a comeback and wins in overtime...what more can you ask for?...

It was looking one sided there for a moment when the newly acquired Sergi Samsonov fit right into their top line...But hey, these are the sweetest to win...and Nikolai Zherdev is still read hot, adding a goal and an 2 assists...For those of you keeping track at home, that's 5 goals and 2 assists for the "Kid from Kiev" over the last 5 games...now come on, admit it...you wish the kid played for your team...Its okay to say it, you don't even have to post it...

The line of Nash, Zherdev and Fedorov has been looking really good lately...really good...

They can go ahead and call the season on this one...it doesn't get much better than this...That's 9 goals in the last two wins boys and girls...Next stop St. Louis...