SAN JOSE — By the end of the regular season, the Sharks could very well wind up leading the NHL in players who finish with between 10-13 goals.

Or perhaps it’ll just feel that way.

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After plea from HDA and Evander Kane, NHL postpones Thursday and Friday games Brent Burns, Joe Pavelski, Logan Couture and Patrick Marleau have accounted for 99 of the Sharks’ 190 goals so far this season.

Then there’s a group of players who are on the cusp of double-digits for goals scored, including Mikkel Boedker and Melker Karlsson with nine each, Joel Ward and Tomas Hertl with eight and Chris Tierney with seven.

Both Ward and Tierney scored against Dallas on Sunday.

The goal totals among the secondary scorers has been lower than what was originally hoped for this season, particularly for Ward and Boedker. Still, enough guys are chipping in that the Sharks rank 13th in the NHL at 2.79 goals per game. On Jan. 15, after 43 games, the Sharks were averaging 2.60 goals per game.

“I like our depth. I’m not necessarily married to combinations,” Sharks coach Pete DeBoer said Tuesday morning. “I like the quality of the players we have one through 13 that we can put in there. The combinations will change depending on how productive we are.”

Ward, for instance, won’t get to the 21 goals he had last year when he spent a lot of time on the Sharks’ second line with Marleau and Couture. But he has been rewarded with more ice time when he’s able to raise his game. It appears he’ll be back on the Sharks’ second line to start Tuesday’s game against Buffalo.

“He has that ability to raise his level, but for me, whether he’s playing there or whether he’s playing with Tierney, the opportunity is there to make a difference in the game,” DeBoer said of Ward.

“We’re a four-line team, so, where you slot shouldn’t matter. You should be going out there trying to make a difference in the game. That’s what wins in playoff time.”

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David Schlemko (lower body) and Melker Karlsson (lower body) will both be out of the lineup against the Sabres. DeBoer said Schlemko is right now getting “a lot closer” to a return while Karlsson is “a little bit closer.”

Marcus Sorensen took Karlsson’s spot in the lineup for Sunday’s game against Dallas as he played on the fourth line with Tierney and Micheal Haley. Sorensen assisted on Tierney’s third period goal and finished a career-high 12:17 of ice time.

“Did a good job,” DeBoer said of Sorensen. “Again, he’s one of those 13 guys that we feel comfortable we can roll in and out and move in and out, and he’s going to get in and do a good job for us.”

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The Sabres are 9-0-1 in their last 10 games against the Sharks. In their last 10 trips to SAP Center, they’re 6-2-2.

Few Sharks losses to the Sabres were as painful as the one on Feb. 7, as a three-goal lead evaporated in the third period in what ended up a 5-4 overtime loss in Buffalo.

“We played two periods about ‘as well as you can play and a third period about as poorly as you can play,” DeBoer said. “This team, for whatever reason, seems to have our number and has over the years, so we have to get past that.

“The good news is we have a lot of good tape on what works against them and also a little bit on what doesn’t. It’s just about executing and doing it for 60 minutes.”

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Martin Jones will start in goal for the Sharks just the fourth time in seven games this month. He has 1-1-1 record in three career games against the Sabres, and made 31 saves in the loss to Buffalo in February.

The Sharks will continue to take it easy on Jones for the next couple weeks before things ramp up again toward the end of the regular season.

Jones started five of the Sharks’ last eight games in 2015-16, including the last two.

“That’s always what you give up when you try to give them a little more rest, is you get out of that game-in, game-out rhythm,” DeBoer said of Jones’ rest-to-games ratio.

“We think that we’ll be able to build that back in as we get closer to the playoffs. They’ll jump into that once the playoff start and we’ll have a fresh guy like we had last year. Basically trying to follow the same formula as we did last year with (Jones).”