05-19-2021, 01:48 PMNhamlet Wrote: Alternate suggestion, increase the number of teams (Czechia, Russia with their own but instead with 3 forward lines a la SHL)?

Main downside is that it's possible and likely that new created rookies, the ones who are most excited about this, could be left out from deeper nations.

Pretty much no matter how much you do things there are gonna be rookies missing out or getting minimal icetime.

Also Russia doesn't have players on defense, not offense so it wouldn't even really effect us. 

05-19-2021, 01:38 PMSlashACM Wrote: Wait if y'all want Russia + whoever and czechia + whoever what is the point of breaking up UCORCAL

As of right now UCORCAL is too big. It's bad both for the competitiveness of the WJC (UCORCAL will be loaded every year bc it's a pretty large player pool) and for the actual players on the team (or more accurately, the ones NOT on the team). If you were to combine the three feds in UCORCAL into one megafed it would have a size comparable to the US or Canada (if not bigger), and while those teams get broken up now UCORCAL remains the same.