"There's always adjustments during the series," said Schwartz, who has three goals and 11 points in the playoffs. "It depends on where you are with matchups and things like that. If that happens, we just have to take it and run with it. The lines are the way they are today and we'll see how they go."
What the line wants is consistency, and if it is able to bring that, it will balance out the scoring among the top three lines.
"Just take it game by game really," Schwartz said. "Make sure we're supporting each other, moving our feet. Teams like to swarm a little bit, especially when [Tarasenko] is in the slot there's usually a couple guys on him or one of us in the corner. So we have to make sure we're coming towards each other, being an option for one another. Whether it's coming through the neutral zone or the D-zone, make sure we have speed and one guy driving the middle and one guy finding a lane."
The Sharks come in with perhaps an extra scouting report on the Blues thanks to defenseman Roman Polak.
Selected by the Blues in the sixth round (No. 180) of the 2004 NHL Draft, Polak spent the first eight seasons of his NHL career in St. Louis before he was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs on June 28, 2014. He was acquired by the Sharks with center Nick Spaling from the Maple Leafs on Feb. 22 for second-round draft picks in 2017 and 2018, and forward Raffi Torres.
"I don't think it's going to be different," Polak said. "It's just going to be exciting playing against somebody you know. I think there's going to be lots of chirping on the ice. It's expected, but it's going to be good."
So much has been made of the Sharks potent power play, which is converting at a 31 percent clip in the playoffs, but coach Peter DeBoer is wary of the Blues, who are scoring at 27.5 percent.
"As far as their power play goes, it's dangerous," DeBoer said. "I think our discipline is critical. We've been one of the least penalized teams through the season and in the playoffs, so I think that's going to play into it too."
