Oh yeah haha, it was nearly 6 am when I posted that and it was technically night time so I got confused. My definition of tomorrow is when I wake upFYI, the game is today. Don't want you to miss it
I'm not Canadian though, I'm Swedish.
But yeah, I have always had the same feeling about Canada on the international scene.
They have played AND gotten away with tons of bs through the years.
And as always, all Czech fans were convinced the refs are against us, they overlook the opponents' fouls etc., even in the situations when this was a nonsense. Perhaps the situations you were calling diving we were calling "look, apparent foul and the ref overlooked it" back then. I suppose this to be normal for a certain type of a fan, to see your team as the one playing fair and the other team as playing dirty. Now I believe i grew up from being this kind of a fan, but back then, it was so funny. When we played Sweden or Finland, it was nothing special, but man, Canada and Russia - people were sitting in from of their TV's and shouting out lout harsh words addressed to the CAN/RUS players. ) With Russia, of course, there is still something left of this, because of all that historical events. During the communist era, people hated the Soviet players simply because they hated the Soviet regime. There even was a fan motto, inspired by the propaganda motto "With the Soviet Union for the eternal times," which was converted into "Let's beat the Russians for the eternal times." Canada I believe became the "adversary" during the 90's, I don't exactly know why. Perhaps just because they were good. 
I guess with Canada it became with that 90s grinding style and especially with that 98 browl. It looked like people generally thought czechs were more technical which canadians couldnt manage so they played too much physical. On the other hand czech fans overlooked that constant hooking etc. made by czech players.True is czechs didnt like much physical play.But that animosity was mutual imo, maybe not from canadian fans, but definetely on players and coaches level.I think this were the 90's - early 2000's. Well, we didn't hate Sweden too much then, we hated Canada and Russia.
