I would be just fine with Phillips ' number getting retired as well . All 3 of those guys played in an era where Ottawa was one of the best teams in the league and they were in their primes . Phillips was a solid top 4 defenseman for practically his entire career and has played the most games in Senators history . There ' s something to be said for that . We don ' t have a lot of history being a relatively new franchise so I think it ' s important to recognize the very few career long Senators players we ' ve had . Teams like Toronto have a ring of honour because they ' ve been around for so long and have had so many players play for them . It ' s kind of different in Ottawa . We ' re building up our list of legendary players that have played here . We ' re not running out of paper like Toronto is .