NHL labor negotiations will resume on Tuesday

• The sides will decide on Monday where the talks will be held
• Recent talks have dealt with smaller issues
• The big issue is how to divide up $3.3 billion in revenue

The NHL and the NHL Players' Association will get back together on Tuesday to continue negotiations toward a deal that would end the lockout.

The agenda and the site for the talks will be decided on Monday.

The most recent talks were in New York on Wednesday and Thursday, when the two sides discussed smaller issues such as drug testing and free agency.

The big issue - how to divide up $3.3 billion in revenue -- has not been discussed since the lockout began on Sept. 16.

In its most recent proposal, made on Sept. 12, the NHL wanted to drop the players' share immediately to 49%, from the current 57%. The proposal would have the players' share fall to 47% in the six-year deal.

The players are willing to take less of future revenues over the first three years of a deal in exchange for greater revenue-sharing to help financially troubled teams. They have proposed ways to extend the deal an additional two years.

Players are due to miss their first paycheck on Monday, though sometime in the last two weeks of October they're supposed to receive an escrow refund check worth about 8% of last year's salary. That, generally, will more than make up for the lost paycheck.