Norway: GET-ligaen (2021 Playoffs cancelled)

[TheWhiskeyThief]

tv2.no

 

[Theokritos]

For 2020-2021

 

[3 Minute Minor]

What's the import limit in Norway?

 

[KA Olimb]

What's the import limit in Norway?

6 players per team. Likely reduced to 5 next year.

 

[OskarOskarius]

6 players per team. Likely reduced to 5 next year.

How stupid. Talented players need a talented surrounding to improve. I see new arenas being built but if the players on the ice are crap...

 

[3 Minute Minor]

6 players per team. Likely reduced to 5 next year.

Is it specific to NA imports? Or is it NA & EU?

 

[KA Olimb]

Is it specific to NA imports? Or is it NA & EU?

Both NA and EU. There are also imports who have played in the league more than six (i think) seasons, they don't count against the import limit. Tobias Lindström, Dan Kissel and Christian Larrivee are examples of this.

 

[SoundAndFury]

How stupid. Talented players need a talented surrounding to improve. I see new arenas being built but if the players on the ice are crap...

It isn't. Most teams couldn't afford more high-level imports anyway so at least those 6 they get now are of higher level. On the contrary, going by your logic, it's rather smart as the teams are forced to get more talented players rather than simply more players.

 

[OskarOskarius]

It isn't. Most teams couldn't afford more high-level imports anyway so at least those 6 they get now are of higher level. On the contrary, going by your logic, it's rather smart as the teams are forced to get more talented players rather than simply more players.

The teams will be forced to pay more for Norwegian players, which will reduce the quality of the league while the wage bills stay the same. It will have the opposite effect of what you imagine. No talent can ever become NHL tier if he’s stuck in an enviroment worse than HockeyAllsvenskan. If anything you should do what SHL has done and get rid of the limit completely or have a very high limit like 50 % of players. DEL have 50 % foreign players and they are now developing some of the biggest talents in hockey.

 

[SoundAndFury]

The teams will be forced to pay more for Norwegian players, which will reduce the quality of the league while the wage bills stay the same. It will have the opposite effect of what you imagine. No talent can ever become NHL tier if he’s stuck in an enviroment worse than HockeyAllsvenskan. If anything you should do what SHL has done and get rid of the limit completely or have a very high limit like 50 % of players. DEL have 50 % foreign players and they are now developing some of the biggest talents in hockey.

And Britts have 13 import limit for ages and haven't developed anyone and everyone is complaining they only keep a few Brittish guys in fringe roles to make up the numbers because there is no incentive to play or develop them. So we can argue which one is the truth to no end.

No player is supposed to develop into an NHL player playing in Norway. They aren't "stuck in the environment", it's a free country, they can go wherever they want if they feel they need to.

 

[Name Nameless]

Just mentioning GET has quit as the sponsor. It's either the Fjordkraft-league, or just Eliteserien if you pretend they are not so poor they had to sell the naming-rights to somebody.

Eliteserien (ice hockey) - Wikipedia

 

[Theokritos]