The holiday break is upon us. Time to gather round the Christmas tree, sing yuletide carols, and indulge in some kind of belt-altering feast on Dec. 25. Or for others to endure the relatives and in-laws, look at the clock until it ends, and start taking down all Christmas-related items the following day. Wherever you are on the spectrum, the NHL takes a break. So with the Flyers still knocking on the door in terms of becoming a possible playoff team, let’s look at what each Flyers player deserves to find under the tree or in their stocking. The list is in no particular order.

Garnet Hathaway

Hathaway needs love and some cuddles from a furry friend. So what better way to spend the holidays and beyond than adopting a dog from one of the shelters in Philadelphia. What breed? Why not an English pointer. A pointer is something Hathaway has yet to get this season, so by adopting one for home, he might be closer to getting a point, or pointer, during a hockey game.

Trevor Zegras

He’s been happy in Philly, he looks like he wants to stay. So, a key to the city for starters and anything Zegras wants that will ensure he stays with the Flyers for an extended period. Or rename the arena the Xfinity Zegras Arena. Anything to placate him.

Rasmus Ristolainen

The adage of good health at this time of year is what Ristolainen and Philadelphia are hoping for. When he’s healthy and on top of things he’s a decent, mean, imposing defenseman. May he end up playing 50 games this year or as close to that amount as possible, delivering hits that knock opponents on their rears. And maybe, just maybe, trying to become the point guy on one of the two power play units with a rather hard, heavy slapshot.

Matvei Michkov

Dale Carnegie and Matvei Michkov don’t look alike. But Carnegie’s 1936 self-help book How To Win Friends and Influence People could be just the reading Michkov needs during this break. He is still trying to woo Rick Tocchet into more playing time. Maybe some multi-point games and a few charismatic goals will be enough for the winger to break the 16-minute mark a hell of a lot more than he did so far this year.

Travis Konecny

As much as Konecny would love to play for Team Canada at the upcoming Winter Olympics, we’d probably like him to avoid the travel, the tournament and the possible injury that comes with some rather stiff international competition. It might be selfish, but seeing how Konecny sank like a stone in terms of production last year, it’s probably wise to avoid anything that would hamper his season in Philadelphia. Hence a 10-day vacation somewhere warm and away from the rink might be a great stocking stuffer.

Rodrigo Abols

Since 2014-15, the player has scored 20 goals three times: once in Russian junior hockey, once for the Portland Winterhawks in the Western Hockey League, and once in Sweden (21 for Orebro HK). If he could find some YouTube clips, or have the Flyers coaching staff make a stream of highlights showing him scoring, it couldn’t hurt. Abols has a goal this season. And he, like anyone else on the fourth line, needs to pitch in a bit more. Maybe seeing himself scoring could rekindle whatever has been lost this season. A season review of a forward’s scoring highlights should be longer than 10 seconds.

Sean Couturier

The Flyers captain could probably use the rest over the holidays, even if it’s a few days. But Couturier could also use a massage therapist. Since getting hit with a shot against Nashville which knocked him out of the lineup briefly, Couturier — heading into Saturday’s game against the Rangers — has 10 points since that injury. Prior to that, in the opening month of the season alone, he had nine points. And all of those were at even strength. We hope that maybe Couturier can have a professional work some of his body kinks out because, as it stands now, he seems to be a step slower. Maybe Denver Barkey can make him look a little quicker. Through a few games so far he’s looked a little better.

Owen Tippett

A director’s cut box set of Groundhog Day. Not just for Bill Murray, but he should watch it any time he finds himself in a hot streak, potting goals left and right and leading to a few victories with any luck. Tippett might be the superstitious sort, so anything he does on a game time that has him scoring should be the routine moving forward. With that speed he shows sometimes, he should be scoring a little bit more than he currently is.

Denver Barkey

We hope some lodging in the Philadelphia area for the next few months if his debut against the Rangers was any indication. If his two assists weren’t enough to keep him around for a while, then head coach Rick Tocchet’s post-game comments about possibly fighting for him to stay might add some more heft to that notion.

Travis Sanheim

Sanheim has been a horse this season, much like the last few seasons after Ivan Provorov left the building. He is doing yeoman’s work game in and game out. So we can only think positive that the defenseman has somebody in his family or circle of friends who is doing the cooking over the holidays. Thus far this season we’ve heard of players injure themselves at team meals, hurt themselves spilling something hot on themselves or just some freak accident that put them out of the lineup.

Should a flying wishbone catch Sanheim in the eye, or he wrenches his back lifting a 30-pound turkey, the Flyers are probably as dead as the bird in the oven. Maybe we can pass the hat, or Tocchet can do the cooking for his key players.

Noah Cates

We’re not saying Cates is bad at interviews whether pre-game, post-game or during intermissions. It comes with the job. We would like one of the Flyers to branch out in his vocabulary from the standard “pucks in deep” and “play 200 feet” (or 197 in case of the Winter Olympics). Thus Cates’ locker room should be stocked with a Roget’s Thesaurus to bring some freshness to what are otherwise rather stale, tame and rudimentary answers. “We have to be on our toes!” can also be said in the following way: “We have to be whip-smart!” Anything to stand out. He’s remains of the more consistent Flyers in terms of work ethic. Let him stand out with his lexicon for once!

Nic Deslauriers

Deslauriers deserves some hand cream. His knuckles are probably sore at the best of times from a career of hitting jaws, cheeks and helmets. So what better way to sooth those hands than with some hand lotion or skin cream to make them velvety soft. Or at least less like sandpaper. We know he has hard hands from his fighting. As well as how he’s gone pointless so far this season like his linemate in Garnet Hathaway.

Nick Seeler

He might get some jokes played on him alongside Deslauriers, being called St. Nick and all. But with the shot-blocker not blocking the quantity of shots he has in the previous seasons (at least it seems that way), maybe Seeler would do well with something similar to a pitching machine that shoots out tennis balls or something soft in his garage. Maybe he doesn’t quite know how to get up each morning in relatively less agony than last year. This way he has some marks on the shins but nothing that will have him limping every minute of every day.

Noah Juulsen

We think nametags with “Hello, I’m the other Noah without the Roget’s Theasaurus” might be a good Christmas gift for the guy who looks to be (barring injuries) the seventh defenseman on the depth chart.

Dan Vladar

He’s probably tired of Vladar the Impaler jokes or even Darth Vadar barbs. Yet we think the best idea would be to get a new goalie mask that mirrors the helmet the Star Wars villain (and Luke’s father, sorry for the near half-century spoiler folks) was known for. The black matches part of Philadelphia’s colors. And it would look rather menacing. Ideally add some miniature sound system so to amplify his breathing, scaring the wits out of opponents everywhere, especially in the shootouts.

Cam York

A punching bag or a speed bag with a certain face taped to it or emblazoned on it. Connect the dots people. Please.

Bobby Brink

Robert Orr Brink deserves to have a statue made of him. Not necessarily outside the Xfinity Mobile Arena. But maybe in his backyard. It wouldn’t quite be the heroic mid-air celebration the first Robert Orr scored over the Blues in the 1970 Stanley Cup final. We’re thinking of something more along the lines where he’s winning a puck battle against the likes of Matt Rempe or all 6’8″ of Elmer Soderblom from the Red Wings. The proverbial little guy continues to get things done.

Sam Ersson

Ersson might go the entire season being a useful backup goalie despite having an .850 to .860 save percentage all season. He may be worse statistically in that category than last year, something that was almost inconceivable. Yet here we are. Thus, for Ersson, we believe he deserves nothing but the best: an Ikea Hemnes (sort of a huge cupboard/storage unit that is almost ten feet across). The idea is if he can follow the instructions and build the wall unit by the end of Dec. 25, he can certainly figure out how to slow but steadily increase his save percentage. Or maybe seeing such a monstrosity, he might feel as big as a Hemnes in the net and become a stud goalie the rest of the season.

Christian Dvorak

Dvorak could be playing himself into a short-term extension, or having a line of suitors ready to part with prospects and picks at the trade deadline. A lot will be influenced by where Philadelphia is in the standings. But for Christmas? The finest Swiss Army knife that money can buy! Dvorak can do it all, from winning faceoffs to killing penalties while also holding his own on a line with Zegras. So because he’s so useful, that knife would be quite appropriate.

Jamie Drysdale

The defenseman has been having a great season, given more responsibilities while finding himself paired with Emil Andrae. Drysdale probably isn’t going to find Flyers general manager Danny Briere under the tree with a contract extension. He should find a new pad to call home, preferably with bedrooms and parking space for York and Zegras whenever they crash his place.

Tyson Foerster

In all sincerity, we wish the winger good health and a quick recovery from what is — barring a deep playoff run — a season-ending injury.

Emil Andrae

Andrae and noted author Norman Vincent Peale never crossed paths. Peale was dead for about a decade when Andrae was born. But Andrae might be wise to get his hands on Peale’s bestselling book The Power of Positive Thinking. The self-help bible should make Andrae feel good about his game and avoid any gaffes or miscues that could put him back in third-pairing jeopardy. That book could help him stick around in the top four for far longer than anybody expected.

Carl Grundstrom

The winger has been a nice little addition, temporarily getting the fourth line out of the depths of doing squat on the scoresheet. He also was bumped up in the lines but might find himself back down in the bottom six if Denver Barkey has a say in the matter. Grundstrom deserves some Eagles playoff tickets. That way he knows he won’t have to tackle the resell market and lose half his shirt in the process. And a home Eagles playoff game would mean he’s with the club for at least a few weeks, enough to see if he can help that fourth line consistently.

Nikita Grebenkin

Grebenkin has run into damn near everything he possibly can during a game. If he has the puck, you can bet he’s going to get hit within a second of getting it. He skates like a tank, hoping to go through the opponent rather than around him. So we hope he has a set of car keys under his Christmas tree this week. The car won’t be a Porsche but a Waymo. Why? Well, given how much he runs into things on the ice, a driverless car has less of a chance getting into a fender bender than Grebenkin does.