Am I seriously the longest tenured GM already? I only started in S46. Which I just realized is already quite a while ago. My how time flies...
Anyway, I wouldn't mind being cut. And if Ottawa is too bitchin' of a franchise to cut, we could always just do the Jets -> Arizona, Atlanta -> Jets thing. i.e. Just remove my team, but relocate one of the other cities to Ottawa.
But I don't even know how much in favour I am of contracting the VHLM at all, so yeah. 7 teams would be okay/interesting. We'd either have to adjust how many games are played in a season or certain teams would have to play other teams different amounts. And you wouldn't TECHNICALLY have to abolish conferences altogether, just re-institute crossover, and reduce the teams making playoffs to 4. Which probably should be done anyway.