(Sports Network) - The eighth-seeded Anaheim Ducks will get another shot at closing out a major upset tonight and will get that chance on home ice. The top-seeded San Jose Sharks, on the other hand, will try to survive and force a decisive seventh game when they visit the Ducks for this evening's Game 6 at the Honda Center.

The Ducks have held leads of 2-0 and 3-1 in this best-of-seven Western Conference quarterfinal series, but they dropped an overtime test Saturday in San Jose to allow the Sharks cut the deficit to three games to two.

Anaheim is attempting to become just the eighth No. 8 team to defeat the top seed since 1994, something the Sharks have done twice in their history. The last club in the NHL to pull off the feat was Edmonton, which beat top-seeded Detroit in 2006. San Jose achieved the upset against Detroit in 1994 and also did it against St. Louis in 2000.

The Ducks had a 20-18-3 record as the host this year and has split a pair of home tests with the Sharks in this series. San Jose was 21-13-7 as the visiting club during the regular season.

If the Sharks win on the road tonight, they'll force a decisive Game 7 in San Jose this Wednesday.

After getting beat 4-0 in Game 4 at Anaheim, the Sharks rebounded in a must- win situation on Saturday. Patrick Marleau's goal 6:02 into overtime boosted San Jose to the 3-2 win over the Ducks at HP Pavilion.

Joe Thornton had a goal and two assists for the top-seeded Sharks. Devin Setoguchi had a goal and an assist, while Evgeni Nabokov stopped 23 shots.

The Ducks, who won the first two games of this series in San Jose, nearly scored just 25 seconds into overtime, but Nabokov came up with a big save.

San Jose then won off a scramble near the net. Jonas Hiller stopped Thornton's shot from the right circle. The puck came to the left side of the net, where Marleau was able to get his stick on the puck. It slid underneath Hiller and stayed on the red goal line for a split second until the netminder fell backward with his right skate sending the disc into the net.

Hiller had a great performance in a losing effort for the Ducks, making 45 saves. The Swiss backstop has been terrific in his first-ever NHL playoff series, posting a 1.77 goals against average and .953 save percentage. He has also recorded two shutouts along the way.

Corey Perry and Ryan Carter each scored for the Ducks, who also got two assists from Scott Niedermayer.

San Jose is coming off the best regular season in club history, as they set franchise records this year in wins (53), points (117) and home victories (32) while also capturing the first Presidents' Trophy in team history.

The Sharks have suffered their share of playoff disappointments in recent years. After a conference finals loss to Calgary in 2004 the Sharks have been touted as perennial Cup favorites only to get knocked out in the conference semifinals in each of the last three seasons.

The Sharks and Ducks split six meetings during the regular season and the all- time series between the clubs is tied at 41-41-8.

This series marks only the second time in league history that two California teams are meeting in the playoffs. The other was when the Los Angeles Kings beat the Oakland Seals in seven games in 1969.