So perhaps the first major pro franchise in Las Vegas won’t be an NBA or a Major League Baseball team, after all.

The SportsBusiness Daily reported last week that the NHL confirmed it has been in discussions with Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer about the possibility of bringing a team to Las Vegas. Kansas City is also in the running for a team, should the league decide to expand, SBD reported.

NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly told the Daily: "Bruckheimer is one of many people we have spoken to about their desire to own a team in Vegas." Daly added that "no decisions have been made" by the NHL [Board of Governors] about expanding the league from 30 to 32 teams and that "there's no 'agreement' with anyone" to own an expansion team. But he said, "There have been many expressions of interest by a number of individuals and a number of cities," including Las Vegas and K.C.

Daly told the Las Vegas Review Journal that a new arena would need to be built in order to secure a team.

Daly told the paper: "In order for the NHL to ever have a franchise in Las Vegas, they'd have to build a new state-of-the-art arena in Las Vegas. We're talking a couple years away, minimum.”

He also told the paper talks have taken place with a variety of individuals from different markets about expansion teams and that league officials would be updating the NHL Board of Governors about the developments.