SAN JOSE — After scoring more than two non-empty net goals just once in a nine-game span, the Sharks are starting to find some offense, lighting the lamp 11 times in their last three games. Get Sharks news in your inbox. Sign up now for the free Sharks Report newsletter.

The Sharks followed up their four-goal performance against the Vegas Golden Knights Friday by notching four more against the Winnipeg Jets (14-6-3), who entered Saturday’s game at the SAP Center with a 24-7-4 record since March 13 of last season.

Here’s what we learned as the Sharks (12-8-2) picked up a 4-0 win over the Western Conference’s hottest team.

1. Martin Jones goes “under evaluation” after pitching second shutout of season.

Usually, when a goalie tosses a shutout, he’ll be the first player requested by reporters for a postgame interview. But Jones wound up being a no show for his media scrum Saturday after he made 38 saves en route to his second shutout of the season.

Everybody's gotta congratulate the guy with the shutout. #SJSharks pic.twitter.com/4lf1ryMswK — San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) November 26, 2017

Why?

He was undergoing an evaluation for what appeared to be a lower-body injury suffered in the third period of the Sharks win.

“He’s in with our medical people right now,” assistant coach Steve Spott said when asked about Jones’ postgame absence. “We’ll know more tomorrow.”

With 6:32 left in the third period, Sharks head trainer Ray Tufts paid Jones a visit on the ice, testing his ability to move side-to-side in the crease. Jones remained in the game, but he appeared to be nursing an injury in his lower-body area, moving around carefully in the blue paint, looking awkward on a post-to-post slide and getting up slowly after he went down to stop the puck. For complete Sharks coverage

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In between whistles, Jones could be seen stretching out his legs in the crease.

Although Jones is putting together an all-star caliber season, the Sharks should be able to absorb his loss if he winds up having a short-term injury. Backup Aaron Dell is proving he’s more than capable of stepping in and providing the team with quality goaltending. Like our Sharks Facebook page for more San Jose Sharks news, commentary and conversation.

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Game Changers: Four years after Kaepernick kneeled, a look at Bay Area sports leaders who stood before him In 28 NHL appearances, Dell has posted a .928 save percentage and a 2.06 goals-against average. He’s 2-3-1 with a .920 save percentage and a 2.23 goals-against average this season.

The Sharks also have a pair of serviceable netminders with the AHL Barracuda if they need to recall a goalie to serve as a temporary backup. Antoine Bibeau ranks third in the league in goals-against average (1.82) and fourth in save percentage (.933) in nine appearances, and Troy Grosenick is coming off a season in which he snagged the league’s top goalie award.

But if the injury is serious, which seems unlikely at this point, it could be potentially devastating to the Sharks, whose game is structured around keeping the puck out of the net. Dell, Bibeau and Grosenick are all unproven commodities as starters at the NHL level.

2. Pencil Logan Couture into the All-Star game.

Couture is carrying the Sharks forward group this season, a point that isn’t lost on the Sharks coaching staff.

After scoring his 12th and 13th goals of the year, his name came up in the coach’s office.

.@Logancouture's second of the night was a thing of beauty. 🤩 #SJSharks pic.twitter.com/9a0N3KuNis — San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) November 26, 2017

“He’s been excellent. We just said that in the coach’s office,” said Spott as he filled in for head coach Pete DeBoer in the postgame media session. “He’s doing as much offensively as he does defensively. He’s very much an unsung hero for what he does defensively. He blocks shots and that’s what you want from your best players.

“When guys like Logan Couture do it, it sends the right message to our young guys.”

For years, Couture has gone head-to-head with the top centers in the league, playing a selfless defensive game at the cost of his offensive numbers

But this year, Couture is leading the charge in the attack zone, as well.

On a team that’s scored the fewest five-on-five goals in the NHL (32), Couture ranks fifth in the NHL in goals (tied with four players) and his 19 points is tops on the team, five more than Joe Thornton’s production.

Even if Couture’s numbers takes a dip over the next six weeks, it’s hard to imagine that he won’t earn his second trip to the All-Star game this year. The Sharks just don’t have a lot of viable candidates other than he and Jones.

Thornton is having an up-and-down year coming off major knee surgery in the offseason. Joe Pavelski is stuck on four goals after failing to put the puck in the net for a 10th-consecutive game and Brent Burns scored his first goal of the year on Friday.

Without Couture, it’s hard to imagine that the Sharks would be anywhere near a playoff spot right now. It’s safe to assume that the guys in the dressing room know who the team’s MVP through 22 games is.

“He does everything,” Jannik Hansen said. “He plays power play, five-on-five, shorthanded. He plays against the other team’s top guys every night, and most nights, he comes out on top.”

3. The Sharks get their offense the right away this time.

The Sharks put up more than three goals for just the second time since Nov. 1 Friday, but DeBoer was displeased with how his team generated its offense, calling its game, “pond hockey”.

Although Couture criticized the Sharks defensive effort Saturday, the Sharks managed to score four times — an even strength goal, a power play, a shorthanded goal and an empty netter — while containing a Jets offense that came into the game ranked sixth in the NHL (3.27 goals per game).

The Sharks kept Mark Scheifele (25 points), Blake Wheeler (25 points), Patrik Laine (17 points) and Nikolaj Ehlers (17 points) off the scoresheet and the penalty kill went 3-for-3 against a power play that had scored at least one goal in nine of its last 11 games.

“They’ve got a high-powered offense over there,” Spott said. “To do what we did tonight was excellent.”