Torres, Oilers beat Blue Jackets

Raffi Torres scored twice and Fernando Pisani had a goal and two assists to lead the Edmonton Oilers to a 5-2 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Wednesday night.

Ryan Smyth and Petr Sykora also scored for the Oilers, who won their second straight to finish a five-game homestand 3-2. Edmonton also moved within four points of eighth place Minnesota in the Western Conference.

David Vyborny and Fredrik Modin had the goals for Columbus, which snapped a four-game winning streak.

Smyth opened the scoring with a power-play goal at 3:31 of the first period. Columbus goalie Ty Conklin, a former Oiler, stopped Marc-Andre Bergeron's shot from the point but Smyth batted the rebound out of mid-air and into the net.

Torres put Edmonton ahead 2-0 just 22 seconds into the second. Pisani feathered a nice pass through the legs of a Columbus defenseman to Torres, who earned his 100th point with the Oilers.

Columbus pulled to 2-1 at 6:03 on the power play, deflecting a shot by former Oiler Anson Carter shot from the point past Edmonton starter Jussi Markkanen.

However, Sykora got a power-play goal at 11:57 to restore the two-goal lead. Smyth took a pass in the crease and chipped it to Sykora, who scored just his third goal in 17 games.

Markkanen made a huge stick save on Modin with just over a minute left to keep the score 3-1 heading into the third.

Columbus pulled to 3-2 with Modin's power-play goal 46 seconds into the third.

Torres got his second goal of the game, at 5:41, converting a centering pass from Jarret Stoll from behind the net. Marty Reasoner set up Pisani for the final margin at 7:06.

The Oilers begin a two-game road trip in Vancouver on Thursday night while the Blue Jackets visit Calgary on Friday night.

Notes:@ Markkanen was appearing in back-to-back games for the first time since the sixth and seventh games of the Stanley Cup finals last June. ... Conklin faced his former teammates for the first time. ... Columbus D Bryan Berard played his first game of the season Wednesday, returning from a lower back injury that had seen him sidelined for the first 51 games. ... Wednesday's game was the 60th consecutive regular-season sellout of 16,839 at Rexall Place, a streak dating back to November 2005.