Torres scores twice in Blue Jackets’ win

COLUMBUS (AP) — Rick Nash scored for his 400th career point and Chris Clark notched his first goal as a Blue Jacket, leading Columbus to a 4-2 victory over the St. Louis Blues on Monday.

Nash’s power-play goal 4:20 into the second period gave the Blue Jackets, who ended a three-game losing skid, a 3-2 lead. Clark, acquired from Washington in a Dec. 28 trade, scored on a jam shot early in the third period.

Raffi Torres added two goals and Mathieu Roy had two assists — the first multipoint game of his career. The Blue Jackets improved to 19-3-2 when Torres scores.

Mathieu Garon had 30 saves to run his record against the Blues to 9-3-0.

Keith Tkachuk and Paul Kariya had goals for the Blues, who had their season-best four-game winning streak end.

Garon was injured in the morning skate when a puck hit him in the wrist.

After Columbus took a 2-1 lead into the second period on Torres’ goals, Tkachuk tied it when he crashed the net and slammed into Garon, with the puck going off the glove of sliding defenseman Kris Russell and into the net.

Nash then made it 3-2 through two periods when he beat Chris Mason on a quick wrister from a hard angle near the bottom of the right circle.

Just 1:25 into the third period, Clark was able to get his stick around a defenseman to jam in a pass from Kristian Huselius, who had skated wide of the goal after his shot was stopped by Mason.