Jordan Spence wasn\u2019t going to deny it.<\/p>\n
The defenceman looked at the Ottawa Senators\u2019 schedule as soon as he got traded to them on the second day of the NHL Entry Draft this past offseason to see how soon he could get a crack at the team who traded him, the Los Angeles Kings.<\/p>\n
\u201cI made good memories, and we were all good friends, so it was good to catch up,\u201d said a beaming Spence, who treated some of his former teammates to dinner last night as the Kings got into Ottawa.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the same time, it\u2019s business, and we\u2019re friends off the ice but not on the ice.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Senators will play their first Saturday night home game of the season as they welcome the Kings to Canadian Tire Centre for a 7 p.m. start. Both teams enter with identical 9-5-4 records.<\/p>\n
Both Spence and Travis Green said the defensive structure the Kings play will make it hard to generate high-danger chances for both teams tonight.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to have to be on top of our game tonight, two teams that don\u2019t give up a lot,\u201d said Green.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to have to work for our chances. But we\u2019ve had a good stretch here at home, we needed to. We\u2019re going on the road for a little while, so we want to finish strong tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jordan Spence wasn\u2019t going to deny it. The defenceman looked at the Ottawa Senators\u2019 schedule as soon as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-285132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}