Unlike Allen Iverson and Travis Hughes, I like practice.

Thusly, I will be at the Flyers morning skate today at 11 at the Verizon Center in Washington, and hope to be able to do another brief interview with a Flyer, like the one I did with Scott Hartnell in October.

Since I talked to him, Scott Hartnell has scored 14 goals in 23 games and publicly embraced #hartnelldown, becoming everything we could have ever hoped for in the process.

So, with my transformative powers in mind, whom should I talk to today? And what would you like for me to ask him? Put your suggestions in the comments below (or if you want you can also tweet them to me at @brothenhockey), and I'll read them before (and during) the skate, and try to use some of them in my interview*.

*I make absolutely no guarantees that I will talk to who you want or ask what you want. But I absolutely do want to get a general feel for what demand is like here.

Over the next few Fridays, we'll be talking about different ways to "Enhance The Fan Experience" as part of a SB Nation series sponsored by Samsung. You can see a bunch of these posts on various topics across the SB Nation Hockey network today.

When the Pittsburgh Penguins were in town two weeks ago to take on the Flyers at the Wells Fargo Center, I couldn't help but notice the number of fans from across the state in attendance. The cross-state invasion used to be a pretty one-sided thing. Anybody who attended a Flyers game in Pittsburgh early this decade or in the late 90s can tell you that it was basically Philadelphia West out there.

But as the Penguins have gotten better and this rivalry has actually become, you know, a rivalry, the cross-state invasion has become quite the even-sided affair. Penguins fans routinely make the trek to the WFC, just as our fans routinely make the trek to the Steel City.

It can be annoying. We all know this. Sure, we're usually able to put the invaders in their place with a few witty remarks about being in the wrong bathroom or something, but when the Flyers lay an egg on the ice, things get difficult. Combine that with the collective IQ of those invaders, many of which were chanting "Go home Flyers" from Section 217A of the WFC a few weeks ago, and it's just an obnoxious situation.

I might have a solution to the problem.

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