COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — There's no place like home. Just ask the Edmonton Oilers.



Antoine Vermette had two assists and scored the clinching empty-netter Monday night to lead the Columbus Blue Jackets past Edmonton 5-3, adding to the Oilers' road woes.



Asked about his team's road troubles of late, Oilers coach Pat Quinn cracked, "Of late?"



Edmonton is just 1-14-1 away from home since mid-December.



"We haven't recovered from the loss of certain personnel," Quinn continued, referring to injuries to frontliners such as Ales Hemsky, Sheldon Souray and Nikolai Khabibulin. "We have got ourselves in a mentality that we're poor guys that have had some misfortune that's happened. We're not mentally tough enough to play through those things for long periods of time."



Kristian Huselius added a goal and three assists and Jake Voracek, Chris Clark and Marc Methot also scored for the Blue Jackets, who totaled only three goals in their previous two games. Derek Dorsett chipped in with two assists for the first multipoint game of his 91-game career.



It was a wild, wide-open game full of odd-man rushes.



"There were a lot of up and downs," Huselius said. "We played well for some time, then we lost the momentum and they came back and set the tempo.