I thought you said there would be big budgets and no import limit. Meaning teams wouldn't bother with the Brits when they could get imports of the same if not better standard.
Also what makes you think that the Brits that are around would just spread out into the remaining teams? I'm sure lots of them are settled where they are, have family etc. Thats probably the reason why we have Stevie Lyle as he wanted to come home as his family live here. Lots would probably stay loyal to the teams that they are already with, who would either join the EPL or form a new (better) league.
Also it would probably see the average British players demanding stupid wages, which is what's happened in football. There's no import limit there, and so the few British players remaining go for stupid prices forcing managers to look for foreign players of the same quality for a lot cheaper.
And if as you say there would be big budgets that would mean that ticket prices would probably increase. Haven't people on this forum already this year said that they can't afford to go to all games this year because the tickets are expensive? Despite the fact that its a good price for Elite League hockey. A big budget, no import limit league would probably cost more to watch than what you're paying now.
I do believe though that its probably not worth the bother in debating whether a 6 team league would be good for British hockey. Because surely people can't seriously want or believe that could possibly be a good idea.
Look what happened to the Superleague when all the teams started to disappear. In the time we dropped to the BNL I really enjoyed the games as there were a variety of teams and it was exciting again playing different teams every week. Of course I'd prefer to be in the top league, but when we dropped to the BNL thats where our rivalry with Coventry started, our friendship with Basingstoke, also we took a coach load of fans (maybe more) to Dundee (I think it was) on a week night! Does that happen now?
The more teams the better in my eyes, and I'd love to see teams like Manchester, Basingstoke, Guildford, Dundee, Bracknell, Fife etc playing in our league. I don't think that no import limit and big budgets is going to help hockey in this country at all, and certainly wouldn't encourage teams like the ones mentioned to join.
