I spoke to a couple of the agents in Newport Sports Group this afternoon in LA who represent defenseman Dan Hamhuis.

The two sides are not close in negotiations. It's not money. It's not length of contract.
It's something less obvious.

The problem is the Flyers have two No. 1 defensemen in their top 2 pairs in Chris Pronger and Kimmo Timonen. Matt Carle is not being moved away from Pronger and the Flyers don't want to move Braydon Coburn away from Timonen.

This means less minutes for Hamhuis as an overpaid No. 5 guy and he's always been the top 3.

Here's my story on CSNPhily.com:

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