The details are a little hazy, but the puck traveled approximately four miles during the third period of this game. Surprisingly, it appears to have been carried as far as it was passed:
| Dist | |
| Total | 23537 |
| Pass | 6428 |
| Carry | 6475 |
| Clear/Dump | 5314 |
And who did the bulk of the puck-carrying? First, Chicago:
| # | Player | DIST | DIST/CRY | CARRIES | SHIFT | EVTOI | CARRY/60 |
| CHI6 | Hendry | 41 | 21 | 2 | 2 | 1:26 | 84 |
| CHI51 | Campbell | 411 | 41 | 10 | 7 | 8:43 | 69 |
| CHI19 | Toews | 219 | 31 | 7 | 10 | 7:06 | 59 |
| CHI20 | Skille | 286 | 57 | 5 | 8 | 5:17 | 57 |
| CHI17 | Johnson | 35 | 18 | 2 | 3 | 2:21 | 51 |
| CHI22 | Brouwer | 78 | 16 | 5 | 10 | 6:36 | 45 |
| CHI82 | Kopecky | 310 | 78 | 4 | 7 | 5:23 | 45 |
| CHI28 | Dowell | 42 | 14 | 3 | 7 | 4:10 | 43 |
| CHI10 | Sharp | 109 | 27 | 4 | 9 | 6:17 | 38 |
| CHI7 | Seabrook | 76 | 19 | 4 | 9 | 6:22 | 38 |
| CHI36 | Bolland | 156 | 39 | 4 | 9 | 6:23 | 38 |
| CHI4 | Hjalmarsson | 147 | 29 | 5 | 8 | 8:18 | 36 |
| CHI2 | Keith | 124 | 31 | 4 | 9 | 7:10 | 33 |
| CHI15 | Pisani | 175 | 58 | 3 | 9 | 6:41 | 27 |
| CHI29 | Bickell | 113 | 38 | 3 | 9 | 6:42 | 27 |
| CHI5 | Cullimore | 179 | 89 | 2 | 6 | 4:32 | 26 |
| CHI24 | Boynton | 21 | 21 | 1 | 7 | 4:55 | 12 |
| CHI32 | Scott | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1:38 | 0 | |
| CHI50 | Crawford | 0 | 0 | 20:00 | 0 | ||
| Total | 2524 | 37 | 68 | 34 |
Soupy's your guy yet again. And for Detroit?
| # | Player | DIST | DIST/CRY | CARRIES | SHIFT | EVTOI | CARRY/60 |
| DET13 | Datsyuk | 471 | 29 | 16 | 8 | 7:34 | 127 |
| DET40 | Zetterberg | 511 | 39 | 13 | 9 | 7:01 | 111 |
| DET43 | Helm | 382 | 76 | 5 | 3 | 2:50 | 106 |
| DET23 | Stuart | 264 | 33 | 8 | 7 | 5:41 | 84 |
| DET5 | Lidstrom | 193 | 16 | 12 | 10 | 8:41 | 83 |
| DET28 | Rafalski | 287 | 26 | 11 | 10 | 8:30 | 78 |
| DET51 | Filppula | 117 | 23 | 5 | 7 | 4:47 | 63 |
| DET24 | Salei | 244 | 49 | 5 | 5 | 5:08 | 58 |
| DET44 | Bertuzzi | 240 | 40 | 6 | 8 | 6:11 | 58 |
| DET55 | Kronwall | 189 | 31 | 6 | 9 | 6:26 | 56 |
| DET8 | Abdelkader | 161 | 54 | 3 | 5 | 3:14 | 56 |
| DET17 | Eaves | 216 | 54 | 4 | 4 | 4:21 | 55 |
| DET11 | Cleary | 305 | 61 | 5 | 8 | 6:05 | 49 |
| DET96 | Holmstrom | 113 | 23 | 5 | 8 | 7:25 | 40 |
| DET52 | Ericsson | 67 | 22 | 3 | 8 | 5:34 | 32 |
| DET93 | Franzen | 155 | 52 | 3 | 8 | 6:39 | 27 |
| DET20 | Miller | 38 | 38 | 1 | 3 | 2:58 | 20 |
| DET26 | Hudler | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2:17 | 0 | |
| DET35 | Howard | 0 | 0 | 18:38 | 0 | ||
| Total | 3952 | 36 | 111 | 56 |
Same guys at the top – but Darren Helm? According to our scorer, he skated the puck from his own end to Chicago’s end four times, breaking several checks and skating past a number of Hawks players. It would definitely be worth going back to the videotape on that one! Let’s look at where the puck was carried:
Again, you can see that Detroit did most of the puck carrying (61% to 39%). Not surprisingly (but interesting to see), neither team carried the puck into their opponent's slot.
