Well, as HF is a Canadian Website and since the USA beat Canada and fairly for the gold AND Parise won the MVP and were voted that by people from every country thier and NOT the Americans alone you have to conclude two things. One, the majority of the people who feel bad about this issue are going to be Canadians and that they are wrong in thier position. It is due to the fact that they didn't win the tourney and that their player didn't win top honors.
I think this thread shines a bad light on the hundreds of Canadians on this site who don't feel the need to act upset because things didn't go thier way.
I will say this though, I never knew how much Canadians didn't like Americans until this tourney. I watched all of the games but two on TSN(I watched two on a euro channel) and after listening to the worst pro colour guy in the bus in Pierre and watching the Molson "I AM CANADIAN" commercials where they have a bloke hit a yank in the face with a puck and on the moon and then have the yank be so stupid as to try and drink with his lid down I, like many outsiders must have all come to the conclusion that Canadians simply don't like America.
I don't know why they don't, that one will always go right by me mate but it is obvious that there is a feeling of hatered (might be a bit strong of a word but something like it) towards thier neighbors to the south.
I thought the Molson tele ads were rubbish and wondered, along with a pub full of mates, how the world and Canada would react if the USA had a campaign that did the same thing. There would be demonstrations and marches and all of Canada would be upset and on and on. The thing is, I bet you won't see the US run a tele add close to that type because they know its low brow.
I would bet that if asked, without anyone the wiser, that if ANYONE other than the US beat Canada would they have minded it near as much that the answer would be a resounding yes.
If the Fins won it wouldn't have bothered anyone near as much and that is just sad. Its funny but down hear, we tend to like everyone. We rely as a country on sending out wool and after that, tourism is the next way we survive. That being said, we tend to be accepting of Americans and Canadians as the same. The rest of teh world don't see any difference in you two, maybe that is why you lot seem to care so much.