NEW YORK — No one on either side of the NHL labor fight stormed out of the room, broke off negotiations, or made inflammatory remarks as they left the building.

Quite the contrary, actually.

While negotiators for the league and the union declined to say whether significant progress was made on Day 54 of the lockout, owners and players agreed to return to the bargaining table on Friday for the fourth straight day of talks.

“I am not going to characterize it except to say, as I have before, that it’s always better when you’re meeting than when you’re not,” players’ association executive director Donald Fehr said Thursday night after the sides wrapped up more than five hours of talks.