NEW YORK — The NHL seemed headed for another lockout Friday as neither team owners nor players showed interest in getting back to contract negotiations a day before the old labor deal was set to expire.

Brief conversations late Thursday and Friday between leaders on the two sides failed to spur more formal talks. The current collective bargaining agreement that ended the season-long lockout in 2005 expires at midnight EDT on Saturday, and NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman has said a lockout would kick in immediately if a new deal hasn’t been reached.

“It’s their decision,” defenseman Mike Weaver, the Florida Panthers’ player representative said Friday. “When that padlock comes out, it’s pretty much Bettman’s decision on there.”

The lockout would mark the NHL’s fourth work stoppage since 1992.