Blue Jackets  4    Oilers  2

Columbus Blue Jackets (15-20-9) at Edmonton Oilers (16-22-5), 9 p.m.

Sports Network | January 7, 2010

(Sports Network) - The two bottom teams in the Western Conference get together tonight, as the Columbus Blue Jackets visit the Edmonton Oilers and Rexall Place.

The Blue Jackets come into the contest 14th in the West, just two points up on the Oilers. Neither team has gained or lost much ground on the other, as Columbus has lost four straight and 13 of its last 14, while Edmonton has dropped 10 of its last 11.

The Blue Jackets also head to Edmonton with a club-record 13-game road losing streak on their shoulders. That skid was extended on Tuesday night in a 7-3 setback to Vancouver.

Kristian Huselius and Kris Russell each registered a goal and an assist and R.J. Umberger also scored for Columbus, which is just 6-13-4 on the road this year and hasn't won away from Ohio since November 19.

"There is a reason you lose a lot of games on the road. It's not just bad luck," Columbus head coach Ken Hitchcock said. "If we expect to win on the road, we're going to have to have a lot more people competing at a lot higher level than we had today."

The Blue Jackets did manage to halt one streak by scoring more than two goals for the first time in 11 games.

Jackets netminder Steve Mason turned aside 11-of-17 shots before being pulled in the second period, while Mathieu Garon let up one goal on seven shots in relief. Mason, last year's top rookie, is just 11-15-6 with a 3.31 goals- against average this season.

Columbus will look to end its road skid in Edmonton, where it has lost in five of six and 11 of its last 14 visits. That includes a 6-4 defeat there on October 22.

The Blue Jackets did get some revenge with a 3-2 shootout win at home over the Oilers on November 16, just their fourth win in the last 12 meetings overall in the series.

The Oilers showed some life in Tuesday's 5-4 overtime loss to Phoenix. After Coyotes had a score disallowed that would have given them a three-goal edge, Edmonton's Denis Grebeshkov and Dustin Penner scored 49 seconds apart midway through the third to force overtime.

Jeff Deslauriers, who made 25 saves, allowed the Coyotes' Shane Doan's power- play goal 1:37 into the overtime session, however.

"We just got a bit unlucky, but I truly believe we are headed in the right direction," said Grebeshkov.

Gilbert Brule and Patrick O'Sullivan also scored for the struggling Oilers, who lost the opener of a four-game homestand and fell to 9-10-3 as the host this year. Edmonton has lost eight of its last nine at home.

Oilers defenseman Lubomir Visnovsky has missed the last two games due to an ankle sprain and is doubtful for tonight, while Steve Staios hurt his knee versus the Canucks and is questionable.