A new NHL season is just around the corner, but hockey fans looking for updates on their favourite players and teams should be wary of news they see posted on Facebook from clickbait accounts sharing fake, often outrageous stories.

Anyone scrolling their feed earlier this month might have been surprised by a bit of “ breaking news “: “Sidney Crosby has asked the NHL and all other professional sports leagues to observe a minute of silence before each game to pay tribute to Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.” The post had 20,000 reactions and more than 1,000 comments, and was reshared on the X platform, formerly Twitter, where it got 36,000 likes.

The page that posted the story, Northern Netminders , described itself as an NHL news and updates page, “Bringing you the latest NH

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