Josh Norris's pumpkin

In October 2021, the Ottawa Senators put together a Halloween-themed video that featured Sens forwards Josh Norris and Tim Stützle carving pumpkins.

The two were competing against each other to see who could do the best job of carving their number into a pumpkin. Norris was the early favourite, as he announced early on in the video that he had quite a lot of pumpkin carving experience under his belt, whereas Stützle admitted that he had never carved a pumpkin in his life.

However, the competition soon took a disastrous turn for Norris, who realized that he would not, in fact, be able to leave a piece of his pumpkin floating in the centre of his already absurdly large number 9 without the use of toothpicks. He confidently attempted to fix the problem by making the 9 even bigger, and only made things worse in the process. Stützle watched Norris struggle with the laws of gravity and, after learning from this teammate's mistakes, promptly carved a nearly perfect 18 into his own pumpkin, winning the competition decisively.

Sens fans found Norris's poor pumpkin carving skills endearing. After the video was released online, his pumpkin became a commonly used image, often shared after he scored a goal.