Senators Weigh Jordan Spence’s Fit - and the Risk

Ottawa is sorting through the kind of roster question that sounds simple until you get inside the room and start balancing age, upside, and opportunity cost. Jordan Spence gives the Senators reasons to keep him around, but there are always strings attached when a team is deciding whether a young player is part of the long-term picture. The pros and cons here are less about box-score noise and more about what kind of depth the front office wants to protect.