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CALGARY – The oldest player at Hockey Canadas orientation camp doesnt consider himself an underdog to crack the Olympic roster. At 38, Martin St. Louis is the reigning Art Ross Trophy winner, having racked up a league-high 60 points last season and perhaps thats why he bristled when asked whether there was a role for him on Canadas 2014 Olympic Winter Games squad. "Yeah, I would think that," he said with a wry grin. "I thought I had a pretty good year last year so Im pretty sure theres a good role for me." A couple questions later, St. Louis was asked whether he was surprised to lead the league in scoring. "You know, good thing I have a lot of confidence, because a few more days around you guys [and] I might start doubting myself," he quipped before noting that an injury to Sidney Crosby and the fact it was a lockout-shortened campaign likely contributed to his status as NHL points king. In general, St. Louis, at 5-foot-9 the shortest player at camp along with Bostons Brad Marchand, is getting a bit tired of the whole underdog storyline. "I think not being drafted, I was an under-dog, but I think once I got going in my mid-to-late-20s, I overcame the underdog stamp," he said. And it appears hes not an underdog when it comes to the Canadian team this time around as he was a listed as a favourite to make the squad during the NHL on TSN panels breakdown of the depth chart. Team Canada is expected to feature plenty of young talent in Sochi with 23-year-old Steven Stamkos and 22-year-old John Tavares considered virtual locks to make their Olympic debuts. Taylor Hall (21), Matt Duchene (22), Jordan Eberle (23) and Logan Couture (24) are some of the other young guns expected to compete for the available forward spots. And although St. Louis is not lacking in the confidence department, he is well aware of the task facing him. "Theres a lot more youth in the game than in the past and the game is faster and we definitely have to make sure as we get older as players, weve got to focus on speed," he said. St. Louis, who represented Canada at the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Turin, takes great pride in being able to keep up and even stay ahead of the curve. Stamkos has had a front-row seat to St. Louis fountain-of-youth routine and jokes that his Tampa Bay teammate could keep playing until the age of 45 if he keeps going at this rate. "Hes not slowing down," said Stamkos. "I think the media kind of portrays him as hes getting older and hes losing a step, but look at the stats, look at what hes done the past five years. Hes been at the top of the league every year and hes getting better, hes improving. "Marty doesnt care what other people think about, heres worried about what he has to do to make this team, because I know he was very disappointed about not making the last Olympic team and he uses that as motivation." St. Louis has been a great mentor to Stamkos and, according to Team Canada assistant coach Claude Julien, theres no reason he cant do the same in Sochi for other up and comers. "Hes always kept himself in real good shape," said Julien, who coaches the Boston Bruins. "Hes always been a serious player. Ive always liked Marty for those reasons. He comes to play every night. When you look at a team like ours, when it comes time to pick, its nice to have skill, its nice to have speed, its nice to have a lot of those things, but you also want to put some experience in there. And I know there are some guys that are young that had the experience at the last Olympics as well, but that veteran leadership cant be underestimated, and thats why youve got guys like him here. Danny Boyle is another one. Been around for a long time, but were not doing anybody favours here. If theyre here, its because they deserve to be here." St. Louis may have one advantage over some of the younger players hes competing with for a spot: the man leading Canadas management team knows him very well. Steve Yzerman is his general manager in Tampa Bay as well as Team Canadas executive director. Although, Yzerman held the same job in 2010 and left St. Louis off the squad. "I dont think he knew me as a player as much as he knows me now," said St. Louis. "Does that mean Im on the team? No, not at all, I have to earn it like everybody else. Im going to get a chance on many nights to [show] the guy whos a big part of whos going to make that team that I can be on the team." "I think it all starts with preparation and I think I prepare myself as well as anyone else and last year, I was fortunate to be successful. "Im a true believer that you get what you put in." 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"Each and every single game matters from here on out, especially if we want to do something special," he told them, as the third-seeded Raptors prepared to begin the unofficial second half of their season against the sixth place Washington Wizards. "We cant take [any] nights off," he stressed. "These 30 games are going to be big and weve got to start tonight." Message received, at least in the first of those final 30 games. It took just over four minutes for all five Raptors starters to get on the board. In the end, six players scored in double figures and the teams bench totaled 43 points on an impressive 18-for-26 shooting, as Toronto came away with a 103-93 win, its third in three games against the Wizards this season. "Thats whats great about our team, everybody understands their role and thats real big," said DeRozan, who had a quiet night by his recent standards, scoring 14 points. "We have anybody that can [step up], it can be anybody. If one guys not playing well, somebody else always picks it up." DeRozans uplifting words were not a surprise to Dwane Casey. The Raptors leading scorer had told his coach that he intended to make the speech on the flight to Washington the day prior. "[I] sat with him and talked about the second half of the season, what to expect, and he said he was going to do that," Casey said. "We talked [Monday] night as a team, talked about the next 30 games, what to expect as a team. Now weve got to follow it up with action. Every team coming out is going to be gunning for him - hes achieved All-Star status - and us as a team, were in the playoff hunt. So weve got to meet those expectations." As a team, the Raptors were expectedly rusty early on, specifically on defence. Washington scored 27 first-quarter points, shooting 57 per cent in the frame, while Wizards All-Star John Wall had 11, matching his game total from the Raptors last visit to Verizon Center, Torontos 101-88 win to begin the month of January. "Its always tough to find a rhythm when youre coming off the All-Star break," said Kyle Lowry, who vacationed in an undisclosed location this past weekend after being passed up for the All-Star Game. "Its always tough but we figured it out in the second half and third quarter, for me especially to get going a little bit." In a matchup between two of the best point guards in the Eastern Conference - arguably the two best - Lowry connected on just two of his eight first-half attempts, scoring six points as Wall exploded for 19, making nine of 12 shots. The Raptors lead guard came out of intermission looking like a man on a mission,, scoring 14 points on 6-of-8 shooting in the third, draining long jumpers, getting into the paint at will and knocking down a series of tricky step backs.dddddddddddd Lowry finished with a double-double, leading his team with 24 points and 10 assists and Wall was held to three points, without a single field goal, in the second half. "I was trying to attack a little bit more," Lowry, the scorned should-be-All-Star, said of his third-quarter clinic. "That first game out of the break is always tough and I didnt want to let that be an excuse for us to lose this game." "He took the game over in the third quarter and willed us to a win," Casey said of his point guard. "Just his aggressiveness. He attacked their feet, didnt settle for the three, got into the paint and kept attacking." The Raptors recorded 25 assists, 17 from their point guards - Lowry and Greivis Vasquez - and shot 57 per cent on the night, holding Washington, one of the better three-point shooting teams, to 4-of-15 from beyond the arch. Although it looked like it was going to be smooth sailing for Toronto in the third quarter, leading by as much as 20, things got interesting down the stretch when Washington turned up its defensive intensity and the Raptors quickly went ice cold. Toronto was held without a field goal in the final 7:35 of the game, as the Wizards cut their deficit to six down but were unable to get any closer. "We just turned the ball over way too many times against their pressure," Casey said after this team committed eight of their 15 miscues in the final frame. "Thats just from rust and time off, timing, speed of the game." The rest seemed to do wonders for the Raptors, winners of their last three games, specifically Amir Johnson, who has had over 10 days off after missing two contests with a sore right ankle. The Raptors forward made his return off the bench, scoring 14 points and grabbing five rebounds in a spirited 25 minutes of action. Patrick Patterson made his third straight start - scoring 10 points in 34 minutes - and should stick with the first unit for the time being as Johnson works his way back to full health, though Casey wouldnt commit to the lineup change. The Raptors will go for the four-game sweep of Washington when the Wizards visit Toronto next week. They are now four games ahead of the Wizards and a game and a half in front of the fourth-place Chicago Bulls, Torontos Wednesday opponent at the Air Canada Centre. "Thats a tough team," Lowry said of the Bulls, who will be well rested having arrived in Toronto Tuesday, getting the night off. "A different type of game tomorrow night. Theyre very defensive-minded. Theyve got a great coach [in Tom Thibodeau] and a very intense team, with Joakim (Noah) their All-Star. He leads the charge so weve got to match his intensity." ' ' '