VANCOUVER (AP) -- Russia's Alexander Ovechkin says he's not thinking about it yet. Nor has he begun talking trash with his Swedish, Czech, Canadian or American teammates on the Washington Capitals.
"No, not yet," Ovechkin said Wednesday in Montreal before the Capitals played the Canadiens.
But Ovechkin's friend, linemate and Olympic rival Nicklas Backstrom of Sweden tells a different story.
"There's a bit of trash talk going on," Backstrom said. "But nothing that big."
Ovechkin will be joined on the Russian team in Vancouver by Capitals teammates Alexander Semin and Semyon Varlamov , with Backstrom and Tomas Fleischmann of the Czech Republic rounding out Washington's list of five Olympians.
When asked about the 14-game win streak the Capitals were riding into Montreal and whether he had ever been on a similar run at any other level of hockey, Ovechkin didn't have to think long to come up with a snarky answer.
"World championships, probably, when we beat Canada," he said, referring to the 2008 tournament with a big, gap-toothed smile, before adding "in the final."
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