Dear Readers;

The Toronto Star is getting as bad as some of the Hollywood rags for making up stories!

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The Prime Minister’s Office has dismissed as false a Toronto Star story that said Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin were going to face off later this year in two exhibition hockey games.

Citing unnamed sources, the Star had reported the two leaders were planning to take part in two games to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the famed Canada-U.S.S.R. Summit Series.

However, Andrew MacDougall, a spokesman for the Prime Minister’s Office, wrote on Twitter that the story wasn’t accurate.

“This morning’s front-page Toronto Star story is false,” he posted Monday morning.

Canada’s victory over Russia in the eight-game series in 1972, including Paul Henderson’s clinching goal, has become known as an iconic moment in this country’s hockey psyche.

Harper is known as a hockey buff, while Putin reportedly took up the game only recently.