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The one thing the high-scoring trio is missing so far is a playoff goal. The Sharks’ top line has played nothing like that in the first four games of their first-round series against the Colorado Avalanche. After scoring 40 percent of the team’s goals in the regular season, the three have no goals and four assists in the series, and are a combined minus-7. But despite all that the top-seeded Sharks still find themselves tied at two games apiece with Colorado heading into Thursday night’s Game 5 in San Jose. The biggest reason for that is the play of Joe Pavelski’s second line. Pavelski scored the overtime game-winner in Game 4 in Denver for the Sharks on Tuesday night. Pavelski also scored the tying goal in the closing minute of Game 2, setting the stage for Devin Setoguchi’s(notes) overtime winner. Ryane Clowe also has a goal and four assists. The trio has five goals and seven assists.

The three had their troubles in last year’s playoffs when San Jose’s first-round loss to Anaheim was blamed on a lack of secondary scoring. Pavelski failed to score at all in the six playoff games, while Setoguchi and Clowe had a goal apiece. The loss after posting the top record in the NHL in the regular season hit Pavelski particularly hard. Now the key is getting the top line playing the way they did for most of the regular season. The three formed one of the top lines in the entire league and played together to help Canada win the gold medal at the Olympics. They have not played exclusively together the past two games. Heatley missed Game 3 with an undisclosed injury and didn’t look like himself in Game 4. McLellan juggled his lines a bit that game, with Thornton, Marleau and Heatley being split up at times. The Sharks feel it’s only a matter of time until the line breaks through in the playoffs.