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 fifteen we talked to forward #19 Christian Karbler. 

1.  Favorite thing about Christmas?  "Just being around my family, hanging out, cracking jokes, getting to see the people you don’t get to see all year long”
2. Favorite Christmas tradition growing up as a kid? “It’s got to be making breakfast in the morning, we make breakfast before we even open our gifts”
3. What are you looking forward to most this holiday season?  “Just being able to see my mom and my grandparents, I don’t get to see them a lot during the season and we got a new puppy too so that’ll be nice”
4. Favorite Christmas Food?  “My stepmom’s pull apart bread, It’s like a cinnamon roll but it’s all together in the pan like brownies and its fluffy like French toast, it’s really good”
5. Favorite Christmas Movie?  “A Christmas Story”
6. Favorite Christmas Song?  “Last Christmas by Ella Fitzgerald”
7. Most Memorable Christmas? “I don’t remember what year it was but we had a huge snow storm and we didn’t even get to go anywhere, not to my grandparents and I didn’t get to go to my dad’s because we couldn’t even get out of the house”
8. Best gift you’ve ever received? “I got tickets to the Winter Classic to see the Wings play at the big house at U of M”
9. Worst gift you’ve ever received? “One year I asked for new twigs, that’s what it said on my Christmas list so my grampa took that literally so he got a big hockey stick box and filled it with sticks from the backyard”
10. Do you shop early or last minute? “Last minute, I’m terrible with it but this year I did really good.  I’m done most of my shopping but still have a little bit left to do”
11. Hardest person in your family to shop for? “Definitely my grampa, he’s the most stubborn, he doesn’t know what he wants and then he makes a list for us last minute”
12. If you had to pick either Kevin McCallister from Home Alone or Ralphie from a Christmas story to play in a defensive pair with?  “I’m going with Ralphie, he’s a tough guy, you know he stands up to bullies so I think me and him play a lot alike”
13. Hot Chocolate or Egg Nog? “Hot chocolate, I can’t stand egg nog”
14.  If you could get one gift this year what would it be? “Definitely a championship.  After last year I want to win it this year”