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eSM for finns, SHL for swedes and ECL for everyone

I understand if you get to have a foreign player who have played for the team the season before in ecl. But now when you can choose who ever you want for me it gets more like summercup. When it is a swedish league i want to see a team with swedish players not ”Style” plus the worlds best finish player who not gonna give a shit about the team in the ecl season.

Dear kenu. If nhlgamer is organizatibg tournaments like SCL and eSM whole point should be focusing on finnish and swedish players. Bringing foreign players in tournament changes a lot. Its no more about swedish championship and finnish championship its more like ECL no. What comes to those angry messages you cant make everyone happy. But questions is like this, what can you do if people get sad if they are not allowed to join FINNISH tournament. Maybe it would be time to tell again how cruel world really is

16,67% of players could be Finnish and this ruins it for you? eSM 2019 will allow 33% of the team to be foreign. While we want to be equal where we can, we decided limiting the number to just one instead of two for the SCL in order to make sure the Swedish players have the best opportunity to show and grow. There is a bunch of pre-existing teams that have a mixed roster and by allowing a small quota of foreigners we want to prevent breaking up teams due to unnecessarily strict rules, as some teams would be restricted from playing in most leagues and tournaments in that case. Allowing a small quota of foreign players is nothing new in hockey and in the context of eHockey it will make SCL and eSM even more internationally interesting. Creating a tournament/league and throwing in a prize pool and event doesn't automatically generate success and future events - we need people to play, attend, view it online and find it interesting in order to guarantee success. I didn't like that we were unable to allow foreign players for eSM 2018 despite our best efforts and I got a bunch of angry and disappointed messages from some people that were unable to participate. Now we've been able to fix that with eSM 2019 and the SCL, but sadly it's impossible to please everyone.

the afterparty will be better WITH Fins. https://twitter.com/willekunq/status/1101595175074316288/video/1

Money isn't that important tho. It can also just be a fun thing to do People also spending 700 euros for a trip to Magaluf with plans of getting laid and drunk. and coming home empty-handed.

It does not. Neither did I say it would. I was specifically talking about Finnish players. I’m not asking why @MartindalexC can play with NOR. Finland is such a dominating factor in this community that the effect of allowing Finnish players is much bigger alone than allowing all other nationalities combined. I don’t see how this makes a Swedish championship more interesting? On the contrary I think it hurts Swedish teams in the long run. Last minute transfers are rarely a good way to build success imo

Just 500 on a trip? 🤔 Sounds like a booring one..

Considering ECL is 90 % of finnish teams, one could question how it benefits the growth of the community to include finnish players in a swedish tournament? Maybe that is not NHLGamers goal? @Kenu

Fun with a swedish tournament. Personally I think it would have been funnier if it was just for swedes, though...🙄

Well. Eki traveled to the states for some NHL?! Chiimeera did the same some years ago, "WAL" visited Russia in NHL 11 and played live EASHL. A trip with the boat to Sweden is a pretty easy ride compared to that. And - the Swedish teams will probably only take in the "top-players" that is available, and players that want to take that boat, be drunk, buy some snus, win some money, and the same ride back home again. And there is actually a thing going on here in the Swedish community with teams dodging players from Finland. (even the top players) - So I think we all can calm down. Fin teams will not take in Swedish players for eSM, just because they don't need it with the big amount of players available on your side of this community. Relax 🙂

Hahhah... as an old Magaluf traveller :DDD i can say that money can be spent better... And you may be right, maybe Uppsala is a good choice. It mus be better than Stockholm, where Finns don`t get in bars and nightclubs.

Ofc the choice is up to each team. I believe there are more factors than skill alone to contribute to a tournament’s value.