C/LW FA
Wed 3/13/13 8:27 PM

Jason Spezza (back) might not be able to return to the Senators lineup for another month, according to RDS' Renaud Lavoie. Lavoie says that the center "won't be back in two weeks" because he's still dealing with "some stiffness" in his back. Spezza is really only on his sixth week of recovery from back surgery on a timetable that was pegged for six-to-eight weeks, but it seems like he'll need a bit longer than that to get back into the lineup. If it takes him the four weeks, that leaves him with just a handful of games to play in the regular season and you'll have to wonder if Ottawa falls out of the race, whether it will be worth it for him to return this season at all.