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As he ########d right, left and right again, Patrick Kane carried a half century of frustration on the end of his stick. The Chicago Blackhawks had been the Chicago Cubs of hockey. They hadn’t won a Stanley Cup since John F. Kennedy was president.
But now, as Kane skated toward the net, he had a chance to change that. He glided until he was almost parallel to the goal. It was a seemingly impossible angle. Yet Kane flicked the puck toward the net, where it slipped between goalie Michael Leighton’s legs and vanished. This is where our mystery begins. You would think finding a puck from the biggest hockey game of the year would be easy. That’s what I thought when my editors asked me to find Kane’s magic puck. With more than a dozen HD television cameras in the building that night, and some 20,000 eyewitnesses, many of whom were carrying their own cell phones and cameras, I figured I would just watch a few video clips,Mlb Jerseys find the first person who touched the puck, ask him what he did with it and follow the trail. Easy stuff, right? Anyone who refused to talk or told a lie would be a suspect. But what if you could never find the first person to touch the puck?
What if two people watching the same play tell you two different stories? Or what if you come up with convincing visual evidence that seems to solve the mystery, but an NHL executive swears that you’re wrong? Then what would you do? Then whom would you believe?