Our second Video Of Day would be none other than Antoine Vermette’s game-winner in double overtime lifting the Blackhawks to a wild and unpredictable 5-4 win over the Ducks in Game 4 to even the Western Conference Final.

For most of sudden death, the Hawks wouldn’t get pucks deep turning it over causing a slew of chances for the Ducks’ ferocious attack. If not for the brilliant play of Corey Crawford (47 saves), they don’t prevail. Hell. They probably are swept by Anaheim. Don’t forget Crawford’s 60 saves that allowed Chicago to outlast the Ducks in triple overtime back in Game 2.

On the winning play, the Hawks finally got the puck in and were able to finally beat Frederik Andersen. Rookie Teuvo Teravainen kept a puck in and dumped it down to Patrick Sharp behind the net. Sharp made a nice move and threw a backhand saucer pass in front to a cutting Vermette, who had his first shot blocked. However, he stuck with the rebound and had just enough space to fire it from a tough angle past Andersen and Anaheim defenseman Simon Despres for the game-winner at 85:37.

As Doc Emrick noted on NBC in this classic that featured an astonishing three Ducks goals in a 39-second span to go ahead 4-3 in the third period, the 91st shot of the contest was the game-decider. Remarkably, the Hawks almost lost in epic fashion blowing a two-goal lead. After goals from Jonathan Toews and Brent Seabrook, they fell apart. The Ducks scored three in a row with Ryan Kesler, Matt Beleskey and Corey Perry putting them ahead. But the Hawks finally converted a power play with Brad Richards making a great shot pass to Patrick Kane, who was able to squeak it past Andersen to force overtime.

This is a game many will talk about for a while. The Ducks have dominated most of the play with their forecheck. They have continued to hit the Hawks and pound a thin D corps with Chicago coach Joel Quenneville relying mostly on the top four of Duncan Keith (40:39), Brent Seabrook (32:03), Niklas Hjalmarsson (39:13) and Johnny Oduya (29:26). At least he worked Kyle Cumiskey (13:27) in with the inexperienced defenseman having a strong shift getting the puck deep twice to cause a Ducks icing prior to Vermette’s heroics. Kimmo Timonen only saw 13 shifts (10:15) with hardly any following a giveaway that led to Beleskey’s goal in the third.

The big question headed into a pivotal Game 5 is what do the Hawks have left. Their D has been worked tirelessly by the Ducks with Perry and Getzlaf dominating shifts. Kesler and Andrew Cogliano have been all over the ice. Anaheim is deeper and coach Bruce Boudreau rolls everyone including all six D. The Hawks have had to work extra hard for their two wins going 10 periods before prevailing in sudden death.

It’ll be interesting to see who comes out strong at the start of Monday’s big game. Will the Hawks get an extra adrenaline kick from their emotional victory? Will the Ducks continue to grind away and take the middle of the ice from the Hawks? Or will they have an emotional letdown? We’ll see.