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DOVER, Del. - Four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon said Friday he will have to retire if he continues to suffer the same, excruciating back pain that he did before last weekends Coca-Cola 600. The 42-year-old Gordon is in no hurry to slow down. But he said he hopes he has found some solutions to the back woes that nearly forced him out of NASCARs longest race. Gordon cut short his practice runs last week because of back spasms and there was some concern whether or not he would be able to race. Regan Smith was on standby and Gordon needed treatment after the practice session. But he wound up in his familiar seat behind the wheel of the No. 24 and finished seventh, his ninth top-10 finish in 12 races this season. Gordon knows consistent, shooting pain like he suffered at Charlotte Motor Speedway could drive him toward an early retirement. "I can tell you, if that happens many more times, I wont have a choice," Gordon said Friday at Dover Motor Speedway. Gordon had soreness Monday and Tuesday, though that didnt deviate too much from how he would feel after driving 600 grueling miles. He said his back is not at 100 per cent, and probably never will be behind the wheel. At Daytona this year, Gordon insisted he was serious about considering retirement should he win a fifth championship. He looks every bit a title contender — he has a win and holds the points lead — and gutting out Charlotte proved to his Hendrick Motorsports team "its going to take a lot to get us down." Gordon suffered serious issues years ago in his back, specifically his lower spine, and needed anti-inflammatory medication and workouts with a trainer to return to full strength. He drove in pain during a winless 2008 season and briefly contemplated retirement. For all his back woes, Gordon said he never felt the stabbing pain there like he did last weekend. Gordon said hell make adjustments to his race weekend routine to keep his back loose to withstand hours crunched in a stock car. He needs to stay active and not sit during lengthy breaks in practice and qualifying. Gordon sat more than three hours last week between practice and qualifying, a gap that left he believed led his creaky back to a breakdown. "Once that happened, there was nothing that was going to fix it until I had those injections on Saturday," he said. Gordon has no standby driver at Dover. He felt fine on Friday. But once inside the No. 24, all bets are off. "Its just something I continue to learn and push through," he said. "Its no big deal." Air Max 270 Economiche . The Brazil defender was substituted 13 minutes into Wednesdays 2-1 Copa del Rey win at Athletic Bilbao because of a right hamstring problem. Scans revealed a second grade tear which could keep him out for a reported four to six weeks. Nike Vapormax Scontate . 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He spent most of the outing searching for his best stuff, but still managed to shut down the struggling Minnesota Twins offence.The Tampa Bay Lightning are challenging for the best record in the Eastern Conference despite some uninspiring play on the road. Another chance to fix that comes tonight against an Ottawa Senators team seeking its first three-game win streak in well over two months. Avoiding another road loss wont be easy in Ottawa, a city where the Lightning have gone 5-21-4 since January 1998. They ended a five-game skid there with a 5-4 victory March 20. The first two meetings this season came in Tampa Bay and Bishop stopped 58 of 61 shots in helping the Lightning to a 1-0-1 mark. He made 26 saves in a 4-1 victory Nov. 29 and improved to 5-0-2 lifetime against the Senators with a 2.34 GAA. Bobby Ryan scored 44 seconds into overtime Saturday in Boston, lifting Ottawa (16-14-7) to a 3-2 victory. Kyle Turris also scored and Mike Hoffmans goal with 4:15 left in the third period forced overtime. The Senators, who are 5-3-2 since Dave Cameron took over as coach, havent won three straight since a four-game run Oct. 11-18. Its good for momentum, said Craig Anderson, who made 26 saves. I think its important for us to have some success after last little bit of focusing on the process. The process has been there. We havent gotten the result every single night that we wanted, but tonight was a different story. Cameron will look to Robin Lehner in goal for todays contest. Both teams enter this matchup with struggling power plays. The Lightning rank near the top of the league with 3.23 goals per game and have four double-digit goal scorers, but are 2 for 31 on the man advantage over the last eight games. Ottawa, which ranks in the bottom half of the league with 2.62 goals per contest, hasnt scored on a power play in 199 chances over six games.dddddddddddd. Senators defenseman Erik Karlsson has five goals and five assists during a six-game point streak against Tampa Bay. The Lightning are vying with Montreal and Detroit for the Atlantic Division lead mostly on the strength of a 15-4-1 home record. They swept a recent three-game homestand with a trio of one-goal wins and stayed hot with a 5-1 rout of Buffalo on New Years Eve in the opener of a four-game trip. They had no such luck Friday in Pittsburgh, though, giving up the games first three goals en route to a 6-3 loss. Tampa Bay (24-12-4) closed the deficit to 4-3 midway through the third period but Steve Downie restored the Penguins two-goal cushion just 34 seconds later and sealed the win with an empty-net goal. You cant do that against any team in the league let alone the Pittsburgh Penguins, Lightning coach Jon Cooper said of his teams slow start. Its really disappointing. Coopers team dropped to 2-4-2 in its last eight road games, with those two victories coming against Philadelphia and Buffalo - two teams currently outside the playoff picture. Ben Bishop was replaced by Evgeni Nabokov after allowing those first three goals on 10 shots. Hes 5-3-1 with a 2.91 goals-against average away from Tampa Bay compared to 13-3-1 and a 2.06 GAA at home. Its the breaks of hockey, captain Steven Stamkos said. When you deserve it, you get the breaks, and when you dont, you dont. We didnt have a good start. Senators Projected Lines vs. Lightning FORWARD MacArthur - Turris - Stone Hoffman - Zibanejad - Ryan Michalek - Pageau - Chiasson Greening - Legwand - Condra DEFENCE Phillips - Karlsson Cowen - Ceci Wiercioch - Gryba GOAL Lehner starts ' ' '