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Colin White’s college hockey career could be over as early as this weekend.

That doesn’t mean he would immediately join the Ottawa Senators, though.

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While the club would like its No. 21-overall selection in the 2015 draft to leave Boston College and try to make the Senators next season, there’s no guarantees he’ll be ready to play in the National Hockey League next week if the Eagles are eliminated by the Vermont Catamounts in a best-of-three quarter-final series that starts Friday.

The landscape among the Senators forward group has changed with the arrivals of Alex Burrows (Vancouver), Viktor Stalberg (Carolina) and Chris DiDomenico (Switzerland) before the March 1 trade deadline, while Bobby Ryan (finger) and Chris Neil (finger) are both expected to return.

Once everybody’s healthy, the club will have 15 forwards, and adding White would make that 16. He has the option to play college hockey for two more years, but, if he does decide to leave this spring, the Senators could sign him to a contract and put him on the roster.