Steven Stamkos will play tonight.

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That’s the news that greeted hockey fans as they logged on to Twitter just hours before Game 1 between the Tampa Bay Lightning and Pittsburgh Penguins.

Stamkos was expected to miss up to three months of action after undergoing surgery to remove a blood clot, but rumours had been swirling that he could return to the Lightning’s lineup for the Conference Final.

Great news, right? But wait…

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Oh.

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2009.

Leave it to the Columbus Blue Jackets to fool us all by responding to a tweet from seven years ago.

Given the Blue Jackets’ history of trolling on social media, we should have known better than to trust this one.

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We have to give credit where credit is due, they got us good this time.

The important lesson here? Always triple check your sources.

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