That's why we get to see Canadians celebrate like they scored a Stanley Cup winning goal when they score to make to make it 15-0 against Latvia?
Oh please.
When Canada beat Latvia 16-0 several years ago the Canadian players stopped celebrating right around the fifth goal and actually appeared
embarrassed when the score got more and more out of hand. Anyone who bothered to watch that tournament can tell that several goals in they simply skated right back to the face-off circle. That's a fact. And it's because they didn't want to show up their opponent; get the goals for the goal differential tie-breaker and don't humiliate the Latvian players. The crowd stood up and gave the Latvians a loud ovation at the end of the game as well for the fact that they never stopped skating, that their effort was just as strong at the end as at the beginning of the game, and their clean play.
Your crowd doesn't need Kuznetsov doing whatever you think he did wrong to boo him.
And yet that's the reason he was booed. It's funny how when one provokes a response from the crowd through unsportsmanlike or classless behaviour you're the one to go after the crowd for acting in a predictable fashion. Like so many Russian apologists you would rather just play the "evil Canadian" angle rather than actually encourage the Russian CAPTAIN (of all players he should know better) to take some responsibility for his actions. Holding his ear to the crowd? This isn't the bloody NBA or NFL where showboating and goading opponents is commonplace. We hold hockey players, and captains in particular, to a higher standard.
You guys boo'd the Americans out of the building? And why? Oh yeah because Team USA beat Team Canada two years ago to ruin your bid for a 6th straight Gold Medal.
No, moron. It's because, although intellectually challenged individuals such as yourself may find it difficult to believe, Canada and the United States have a long-running rivalry in sports that is actively engendered by our shared political and geographic proximity, the fact that we share such a common North American culture in a whole sphere of areas, and the fact that because of these shared components the games we play with each other in whatever sport are much more heightened and competitive as a result. This is what happens when you share the world's longest undefended border, have one of the world's largest trading relationships, and have the most tourists between borders on the continent. Canadians and Americans are as intertwined in their relationship as Germans and the French, as Russians and Ukrainians, as Brazilians and Argentines, and other major relationships between neighbouring states.
The American baseball team got booed at the World Baseball Classic before a game in Toronto three years ago and that's in an entirely different sport. Canadians were coming off a huge high for beating the American baseball team the previous tournament. The Canadian junior football team gets up every year to play the Americans and takes those games seriously. The Canadian lacrosse team's biggest rival is the Americans. Hell, the rivalry between Carl Lewis and Ben Johnson and later Michael Johnson and Donovan Bailey in TRACK AND FIELD of all athletics is well-documented. We've had a rivalry in hockey dating back to the 1920s when the Americans were the only other international club until the 1950s that could even be remotely competitive with Canada. So don't act like the Americans are so hard done by or that the crowd is picking on them. This is a reciprocal sporting rivalry across a whole host of disciplines and fans on both sides are actively engaged in it.
The Canadian fans behaved pretty classlessly for the most part. Booing junior players when Canada isn't even playing is embarrassing. It's just hockey, folks.
Seemed to me like the Swedish players loved the crowd and will fondly remember their support for the rest of their lives. If you choose to make up negatives to suit your absurd position fine. Continue to embarrass yourself with the sour grapes.