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CALGARY, Alberta (Ticker) -- The San Jose Sharks may not want to come home.

Jonathan Cheechoo and Vincent Damphousse scored 89 seconds apart during a record-tying four-goal second period as the Sharks squared the Western Conference finals at two wins apiece with a 4-2 triumph over the Calgary Flames .

The road team has won all four games in the best-of-seven series, which continues Monday night 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."

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 centering 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 defenseman Robyn Regehr 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 centering feed from Damphousse between Kiprusoff's pads for his league-leading eighth postseason tally.

"Patty and Vinny, they played huge, like they have in the playoffs," Sharks defenseman Scott Hannan said.

It was the second four-goal period in Sharks' postseason history and finished off Kiprusoff, who was pulled for the first time in this year's playoffs.

"I think it was his weakest performance of the playoffs," Flames coach Darryl Sutter said.

"If anyone can bounce back, it's Miikka Kiprusoff ," Calgary defenseman Mike Commodore added.

Simon got a meaningless power-play tally in the final minute for the Flames, who fell to 3-5 at home.

"Hey, if somebody told us we would be 2-2 in the conference finals, I'm sure we would say, 'Hey, that's where we want to be,'" Sutter said. "But my biggest concern is we had a couple guys not play very well for us tonight. ... That's what concerns me more than where we're at or where we're playing."

The team that has scored first has won each game in this series.

Mike Rathje put San Jose in front 2:40 into the second period, ending a 22-game playoff drought. A blocked shot slid to the top of the slot, where the veteran defenseman blasted a one-timer that grazed the tip of Kiprusoff's glove and found the net.

"That's a big goal, Mike Rathje 's goal," Sutter said. "Then we come back and Jarome Iginla and Marty (Gelinas) drive the net and score and make it 1-1. And then we turn it over again."