Artem Anisimov scored 2:26 into overtime to lift the Columbus Blue Jackets to a 2-1 victory that spoiled Ryan O'Reilly's season debut with the Colorado Avalanche.

The return of O'Reilly did nothing to remedy a road penalty kill that remains dreadful.

PA Parenteau scored the lone Colorado goal, but took a hooking penalty in the extra session that led to Anisimov's game-winner.

Having one player break his stick only made things worse for an Avalanche club that entered play with the league's worst road penalty-kill percentage (65.1).

Anisimov beat Colorado goaltender Semyon Varlamov, who remains winless in games not played at Pepsi Center, with a wrist shot from the right circle to give Columbus just its second win in nine games.

"He was a monster tonight," Blue Jackets center Ryan Johansen said of Anisimov. "He came up big for our team."

The Blue Jackets tied at the 4:04 mark of the third period, with O'Reilly, decked out in his new No. 90 jersey, playing a supporting role as he inadvertently put Vinny Prospal's pass through the crease into his own net during Columbus' second 5-on-3 power play of the game.

O'Reilly, who paced the Avalanche with a career-high 55 points last season, missed training camp and the first 19 games while holding out for a new contract. The restricted free agent on Thursday signed an offer sheet with Calgary that Colorado quickly matched.

"I wasn't very good. It's going to be a climb back," admitted O'Reilly. "No one said it was going to be easy for me. I just have to work hard and take it one game at a time."

The Avalanche got on the board when Parenteau fired a shot from the top of the slot that fluttered off the right shoulder of Columbus goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky and under the crossbar with 7:25 left in the middle stanza.

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