Music: {allcanada} SENS' METHOT KNOWS HE'S OLYMPIC UNDERDOG

Friday, August 30, 2013

{allcanada} SENS' METHOT KNOWS HE'S OLYMPIC UNDERDOG

The Ottawa Citizen believes it is no slight to Senators defenceman Marc Methot's hockey abilities to say that he probably needs three or four injuries to other players in order to make Canada's Olympic team.

"I've got to play my lights out," he said on Thursday, one day after returning from the camp. "There's no doubt that I'm a serious underdog. I mean, you look at all the big names.

"But do I think I'm an underdog? I don't think so. I know I can play there and do well."

He's 28 now and entering his eighth season as a pro, so he knows his way around.

"Maybe if you asked me that question five years ago I would have had a different answer, but not anymore," he said. "I'm older than a lot of these players, too. So for me, it doesn't seem like a daunting task being around those guys.

"The biggest thing is proving to a lot of people that I belong in that group, and that'll start up for me at the start of the season."