A 17-year-old girl in Edmonton was able to trick the Twitter world into believing a news conference announcing the Atlanta Thrashers’ move to Winnipeg had been slated for Friday afternoon. Parminder Sahota made the faux announcement to the 2,000-plus people who follow her Twitter feed — @EpicPuckBunny — about 1 p.m. Thursday, crediting TSN for the story. Those at TSN were forced into publicly denouncing the tweet as inaccurate. On Thursday night, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman even commented on the story, refuting Sahota’s tweet. It will be interesting to see if Sahota will now be considered the “girl who cried wolf” on any future tweets regarding sports stories and NHL news.
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