Jonathan Cheechoo and Vincent Damphousse scored 89 seconds apart in the second period as San Jose tied the Western Conference finals at two wins apiece with a 4-2 win over Calgary.
The road team has won all four games in the best-of-seven series, which continues Monday at San Jose. "It's back to square one," Sharks coach Ron Wilson said. "Obviously, we have to win a home game here. I bet you a lot of people in San Jose didn't think we were coming back and having an opportunity to play tomorrow."
On Sunday, Calgary ended a scoring drought of 94 minutes, 36 seconds and forged a 1-1 tie just under eight minutes into the second period when Jarome Iginla's centring pass hit the right skate of San Jose's Todd Harvey and caromed past goaltender Evgeni Nabokov.
But Cheechoo broke the deadlock 39 seconds later with his first goal of the series.
Flames goalie Miikka Kiprusoff left the puck behind his net, but Cheechoo beat a Calgary defender to it and scored on a wraparound.
"It's always huge," Cheechoo said of the momentum swing. "You've got to come out after a goal and it's always a big shift. So we just kind of wanted to get the momentum going in our favor, and we lucked out and got a goal."
Calgary's Chris Simon received a roughing penalty at 8:44 and Damphousse cashed in with 31 seconds left on the ensuing power play.
Patrick Marleau fired a shot off the side of the net but tracked down the loose puck while falling and threw it in front to set up Damphousse's seventh playoff goal.
Marleau capped the second-period explosion with another power-play goal at 18:47, tapping a centring feed from Damphousse between Kiprusoff's pads for his league-leading eighth postseason tally.
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