Pavelski scratched vs. Flames, ironman streak ends at 495 games

SAN JOSE — Sharks captain Joe Pavelski was scratched from Saturday’s regular season finale with the Calgary Flames, ending an ironman streak of 495 straight games that began Jan. 13, 2011.

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After plea from HDA and Evander Kane, NHL postpones Thursday and Friday games Tomas Hertl and Joel Ward were also scratched from Saturday’s game as the Sharks had a handful of AHL call-ups from the Barracuda in the lineup.

The Sharks beat the Flames 3-1 and will finish the regular season in third place in the Pacific Division with 99 points.

In those 495 straight games, Pavelski had 203 goals and 223 assists for a team-high 426 points. In that same time frame, Joe Thornton had the second-most amount of points for the Sharks with 423 in 489 games.

Sharks coach Pete DeBoer reiterated after Saturday’s game that the players who were scratched, including defenseman Justin Braun, were all “dealing with something.”

Asked if the players scratched, outside of Joe Thornton and Logan Couture, would be able to start a playoff series, DeBoer said, “I would assume so, but everybody’s dealing with something day-to-day.”

Patrick Marleau centered the first line with Barclay Goodrow and Joonas Donskoi on the wings, and Chris Tierney centered the second line with Jannik Hansen and Mikkel Boedker. Daniel O’Regan centered the third line with Melker Karlsson and Kevin Labanc and Micheal Haley was in the middle on the fourth line with Marcus Sorensen and Timo Meier.

Dylan DeMelo took Braun’s spot his spot on the Sharks’ top defense pair with Marc-Edouard Vlasic.

“Yeah, obviously a little different, little different personnel out there,” Sharks defenseman Brenden Dillon said after the Sharks’ win. “Line combinations, power play, penalty kill. I think there was a lot of opportunity for guys to be able to show what they got, show some depth that teams are going to need down the line here in playoffs.”

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