I do not know if this has any relevance to this subject but I am throwing it out there anyways
The thing about this Canadian team is that Scott Niedermayer and Ryan Smyth will most likely be the only ones on the World Cup team. For this Czeck team I can only think of a couple players there missing Milan Hejduk, Jiri Fischer, Robert Lang. There might be some more so do not flame me for it Czeck hockey fans. So I am not thinkin to much of this loss really. The team for Canada could have been so much better for this but to be all honest with this I do not think most canadian players care all to much for it. There mines are on the Stanley Cup and if they lose there first priority becomes family. Not to say there isnt any international players who have family first as well I am just saying that for most canadians this gets overshadowed by the Playoffs.
Also the team at the World Cup should be and will be better then Czeck team for sure and should not have to much trouble with them. But for this Tournament they look like they are the class of this tourny and should take it without any trouble. They have some elite league players who are playing for their country and that to me seems to be the difference between some of the canadian players. They just seem to be there because they have nothing better to do. But not all of them that is for sure. If we had nothing but a big roster of Ryan Smyths we would have no problems because he is there to represent his country to the fullest.