A block off Broadway, the NHL and NHL Players' Association put the theatrics aside and got down to business.

The question is: Will it stay that way when they get back together for a third straight day Wednesday?

The two sides resumed talks around 9 p.m. Tuesday at the NHL's headquarters on Sixth Avenue. There, the league submitted a response to the proposal the union submitted Monday and the NHLPA retreated to study what had been tabled.