N.H.L. and Union Negotiators Meet for a Third Straight Day N.H.L. and players union negotiators met in Manhattan on Sunday for a third straight day of bargaining, but no talks were held on the economic issues at the core of the lockout, now in its third week. As on Saturday, neither N.H.L. Commissioner Gary Bettman nor Donald Fehr, the executive director of the players union, was present for the negotiations, which lasted five hours. The three days of talks have been confined to player health and safety, drug testing and procedural issues. "We're really talking about kind of micro issues," Bill Daly, the N.H.L.'s deputy commissioner, said when asked about Bettman and Fehr's absence. They will be at the table when we're talking about the issues that are really going to get this deal done or not. Steve Fehr, special counsel for the union, called the day's talks "productive" and said it was "good that we were talking." But Daly scolded the players union again, saying it needed to signal it was ready to discuss economic and contract-length issues. "Right now the union is not prepared to do that," he said. The league has made no concessions to the union in its offer for a new collective bargaining agreement, proposing to cut the players' share of revenue to about 47 percent, from 57 percent. The players have offered to accept a small reduction in the share of revenue they receive. The sides said they would not meet Monday and would instead use the day to review the proposals made over the weekend. Steve Fehr said he was hopeful talks would resume Tuesday.