Fasel
says "sooner or later a big international hockey league will appear in Europe. Perhaps, it will be an integral part of the KHL, its western conference."
So, earlier I paraphrased his words.
If you follow this process closely, you know that Fasel says the same visions as the KHL leadership.
First of all, Russians plan for a long period of time, they have a time, they do not need to realize all their visions within a few years. As we know, this fundamental misunderstanding is seen with judging of the KHL expansion because some of us wants to see the results (aka teams joining) right now. That is not the Russian way.
So, what does the KHL say? They would like to see the strong league in Eurasia with headquarter in Moscow. You know, it is important who will run the show - Moscow or Zurich/London whatever? Some time ago, the KHL said some interesting vision, which went unnoticed (but I wrote about it) - they can imagine a league with de-facto separated conferences/divisions, the western (Europe) & eastern (former CCCP & Russia & Asia). The teams of both conferences would not meet in the regular season, or just one away trip to the closest cities would be made (Moscow, St.Petersburg or perhaps Kazan). I noticed the KHL also saying about three divisions as a scenario (Europe, Central/Western Russia & Siberia/Asia). Only neighbouring divisions would meet, so European division vs Central/Western, so no travelling Helsinki-Vladivostok. This is exactly what Fasel says. Btw, one problematic element would be eliminated, the European clubs would not travel behind Urals & not meeting with so-called unatractive (for European fans) Russian teams like Amur, Sibir or Metallurg with Avangard. So, noting it is just a vision now, two/three separated leagues - European & Russian & Siberia/Asia - would be created but run from one headquarter. It remains to be seen where this headquarter will be located.
One more time, it is just a vision, a lot of work to be done. Especially with financing & infrastructure. Europe is miles behind Russia.