CHICAGO — Antoine Vermette scored at 5:37 of the second overtime Saturday night, and the Chicago Blackhawks beat the Anaheim Ducks 5-4 to tie the Western Conference finals at two games apiece.

Vermette, left out of the lineup Thursday night in Chicago’s 2-1 loss in Game 3, was stopped on his first try in front but stayed with the rebound and shot it over Frederik Andersen for his second goal of the playoffs. He then skated over to the corner and was mobbed by his teammates as the season-high crowd of 22,404 cheered wildly.

Game 5 is Monday night in Anaheim.

TAKE THE SPOTLIGHT off goaltender Henrik Lundqvist of the New York Rangers in the Eastern Conference finals and put it on Ben Bishop of the Tampa Bay Lightning.

If it sounds fickle, that’s the way it’s been for the goaltenders in this series between two of the NHL’s top-scoring teams.

Game 1 was tight checking. Game 2 was a Lightning blowout. Game 3 was a shootout, and Lundqvist stole Game 4 for the Rangers with a 38-save performance in a 5-1 win that evened the series at 2-2.

Lundqvist was special in Game 4 after giving up 12 goals in losing the previous two games.

Now the focus is on Bishop, the former UMaine goalie, heading into Game 5 Sunday night at Madison Square Garden. The big goaltender, who has a 10-2 career mark against the Rangers, has given up 10 goals in the last two games.

“I just don’t think you get here to this point in the season and even into the playoffs without having a goaltender, a guy that bails you out when you need to be bailed out,” Lightning Coach Jon Cooper said Saturday. “Ben Bishop has bailed us out some games. Have we bailed him out?

“Sure we have sometimes. But for the most part, Bishop has been rock solid for us. Especially for a kid that’s not played in an NHL playoff game before, there is a brighter light on him, and all he’s done is pass every test that gets sent his way. ”

Like Rangers Coach Alain Vigneault, Cooper had no intention of switching goaltenders, calling the suggestion “preposterous.”

Bishop didn’t play poorly in Game 4. The five goals came on a breakaway by Rick Nash, a rebound by Chris Kreider, a Keith Yandle shot that went off a Lightning defender and two power-play goals, including Nash’s second on a rebound.

While not happy about giving up 10 goals in two games, Bishop reacted much like Lundqvist after his struggles. He planned to learn.

“You never want to give up 10 goals in two games but we did,” he said. “We’ll go back and look at it, and adjust.”

Despite the Rangers’ margin of victory, the Lightning had the better of play at times, particularly in the second period. The game could easily have been another shootout had Tampa Bay buried its chances.

“Every game is a new game,” Rangers forward Martin St. Louis said. “The stuff that might work in Game 3 might not work in Game 4, and it comes down to making good reads sometimes and look sharper at other times in games. Depending on how you’re reading the rush or reading the play, do you pull back or do you jump in a lot?

“You really have to be aware of everything that’s going on on the ice.”