25 Days of Little Flyers: Day 11 Alex Ochterbeck
By Anthony Lorusso, 12/11/16, 1:00PM EST
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White Christmas, A bag of rocks & Mom's gingerbread cookies
Each day from now until Christmas we will sit down and talk to a player from the Little Flyers Eastern Hockey League Junior Team to discuss the holiday season. On day eleven we talked to forward #14 Alex Ochterbeck
- Favorite thing about Christmas? "Snow, back in Texas we don’t get a lot of it so hopefully up here in Philadelphia we can get a good amount this season”
- Favorite Christmas tradition growing up as a kid? “Every morning on Christmas we’d have cinnamon rolls, they were really good”
- What are you looking forward to most this holiday season? “I’m looking forward to the winter up here to see how it goes, it’ll definitely be different”
- Favorite Christmas Food? “Gingerbread cookies that my mom makes”
- Favorite Christmas Movie? “Elf
- Favorite Christmas Song? “White Christmas”
- Most Memorable Christmas? “When I was 10 I got a nice snowfall and some good presents”
- Best gift you’ve ever received? “Sidney Crosby jersey”
- Worst gift you’ve ever received? “My sister gave me a bag of rocks one year”
- Do you shop early or last minute? “Last minute every time”
- Hardest person in your family to shop for? “Definitely my sister, I just have my mom do it”
- If you had to pick either Kevin McCallister from Home Alone or Ralphie from a Christmas story to play on your line who would it be? “Kevin, no question”
- Hot Chocolate or Egg Nog? “Tough one but I’ll go with hot chocolate and marshmallows”
- If you could get one gift this year what would it be? “Championship”