Jason Arnott had two goals for the Stars, who were on the verge of closing within only a point of the first place leaders San Jose in the Pacific Division.

Dallas usually locks a win when they lead after two periods.

Dallas lost control of the game in the third and were outshot in the final period 12-3. Dallas let several late turnovers in the final period, including one by defenseman Chris Therien that led to Cheechoo's tying goal.

Stars goaltender Marty Turco was just over six minutes away from his 20th career shutout and third against the Sharks this season, Nils Ekman scored a short-handed goal for the Sharks.

Cheechoo edged the Dallas lead one to make it a 3-2, advantage popping one in from the right circle with 1:37 left.

Sharks netminder Evgeni Nabokov was on the bench to get San Jose a sixth attacker on the ice, Cheechoo tied it at 19:26, converting Scott Thornton's centering pass from the right boards through Turco's pads for Cheechoo's 23nd goal of the season.

Despite staying three points behind San Jose, Dallas was able to still extend their franchise record home unbeaten streak to 15 games.

Turco, who had won his first seven starts against the Sharks, completed with 24 stops.

The Stars are 13-4-3 in their last 20 games against the Sharks, 3-1-1 this season.

San Jose has 10 games left, and only one more meeting with Dallas.

The Stars continued the longest home unbeaten streak in the NHL since the Detroit Red Wings put together a 19-game run from Dec. 31, 2000 to April 7, 2001. Dallas' last home loss was Jan. 10 against Colorado.

Nabokov had 18 stops for the San Jose Sharks, 9-4-1-1 in their last 15 games.

Arnott scored on a one-time shot from slot off a centering pass from Bill Guerin to get draw first blood for Dallas at 9:54 of the first.

Sergei Zubov posted up a power-play goal on a slap shot from the left point that got past Nabokov.

Arnott made it a 3-0 advantage at 13:49 of the second period, seven seconds into a power play, scoring his 19th of the season assisted from Valeri Bure.

Dallas now takes on the Vancouver Canucks at American Airlines Center on Thursday.

The Nucks previously played Nashville and completed with a 2-2 tie final.

Hall scored with only 22 seconds remaining in regulation and while goaltender Tomas Vokoun was pulled to get an extra attacker, gave the Nashville Predators a 2-2 tie with the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday night.

Cloutier finished with 25 saves for the fourth-place Vanciuver Canucks, three points over Dallas in the race for home-ice advantage in the first round of the playoffs.

Vancouver finished 3-0-1 against Nashville this season and comes out without a loss to the Predators at home since Jan. 23, 2000.