Well these girls really are amateurs in the truest sense!!
I can see both sides of this thing myself. I certainly understand their reasoning for going back on the ice to just soak in what they had achieved after 4 years of hard work to get to this point.
I can also see where this is a brain-cramp in the eyes of the IOC as well as the COC in that the optics really are quite undesirable knowing all the young people that will surely see this stuff as well as still wearing the Maple Leaf while doing so.
They should have done the celebrating in any fashion they deemed appropriate, but they should not of done it in front of a worldwide media.