Sens Cartoons: First Quarter of the Season

Pre-Season & the First 21 Games of the 2026–27 Campaign:

It's hard to believe so much has happened by only the quarter mark of the season! I've compiled a "Greatest Hits" package from my Capital Hockey Cartoons (@SensCartoons on X)—below is a collection of editorial panels covering the Ottawa Senators from pre-season through the first 21 games of the 84-game campaign. Here we go!

(All cartoons imagined, written, and generated by Ashley Newall using AI.)

THE PRE-SEASON

Municipal election season:

Drake Batherson signs an 8-year, $86 million contract extension:

Jaxon Cover dazzles at the rookie tourney:

In light of the Connor Hellebuyck and Dylan Larkin debacles, Steve Staios is looking like a magician for his Brady Tkachuk trade haul:

Jacques Martin calls it a career (maybe):

Hoyt Stanley effectively makes the team out of camp:

The Coming in Hot crew made a grand entrance at the Carp Fair:

THE SEASON BEGINS

Stephen Halliday scores the game-winner in the first game of the season (vs. Toronto):

Bruce "Lee" Garrioch:

The family of Ray Emery rings the bell at the Sens' home opener:

Watching Sportsnet+ games on TVA:

Linus Ullmark in Vezina form:

Playing in the second halves of back-to-back games, Sam Ersson was...

In the absence of Jake Sanderson, Artem Zub and Thomas Chabot were reunited on defense:

A Halloween costume idea for Coming in Hot's Graeme Nichols:

My prediction for Brady Tkachuk's return to Ottawa came true (posted several days before the Sens-Panthers game):

Tim Stützle didn't go out for dinner with Brady the night before the game because he's got a chef at home:

Speaking of Tim Stützle, "Give it to the German!"

Great game for Dylan Cozens in San Jose, with a goal and an assist:

(Wearing spiked cleats, workhorses in the Yukon famously used to 'skid' logs from the forest on ice paths and frozen rivers to help construct log buildings, such as Whitehorse's historic "log skyscrapers.")

Michael Amadio scores the game-winner against Buffalo:

While in Toronto being inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, Keith Tkachuk opined...

(I would argue that Ottawa has indeed moved on, but perhaps that goes without saying.)

Belleville Senators' Djibril Touré, cyclist:

(For the record, I promised less puns, not no puns.)

Kasper Halttunen is lighting up the AHL:

Goalie Jackson Parsons is heating up in Belleville and earns a call-up:

Washington Capitals defenseman (and former Sen) Jacob Chychrun laid a devastating and cowardly hit on Sens forward Nick Cousins:

After Tim Stützle suggested Shane Pinto eat fish for dinner, Pinto went on to score 2 goals—including the overtime winner—and added an assist vs. Colorado. Hence,...

~Fin~

You can follow my Capital Hockey Cartoons @SensCartoons on X (formerly Twitter). And if you're into hockey history, you might enjoy my recent visual essay here on my blog, Imagining a 1940s NHL Ottawa Senators.

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