When will the worst kept secret in the NHL finally become official? According to an MGM exec via Las Vegas Review-Journal, the league will have a formal vote in September as to whether it wants to expand to Vegas.
To which we then emailed the NHL, and commissioner Gary Bettman sent us a statement through a league spokesman.
"We are going to report to the Board in June on the status of franchise interest. Beyond that, nothing has been decided and, at this point, any suggestion to the contrary is nothing more than speculation or perhaps wishful thinking," Bettman said.