Not sure I have the time to commit to this, however, I'd just like to bring to your attention the Champions Hockey League.
It's a really cool tournament featuring teams all over Europe. It's heading into its third season and if there was any support in FHM 3 for adding a tournament based league this is one that would be great to include.
Because it is fairly new, the rules are varying quite a bit, but in general, it is a 48 team tournament featuring clubs from DEL, EBEL, Czech Extraliga, Liiga, NLA, SHL, Get-Ligaen, SVK Extraliga, Ligue Magnus, Metal Ligaen, Ekstraliga, BLR Extraleague, and the EIHL. However, these teams would vary slightly as the league champions are the teams that qualify.
The teams that qualify are divided into 16 divisions of 3, where they play a home-and-away series (OT if tied after 6 periods then a shootout), with the top 2 from each division advancing to the 32-team bracket. It remains best-of-2 aggregate scoring until the finals where it's best of 1.
Some more rules on how teams can qualify can be found on Wikipedia here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champi...y_League#Teams
There are a couple important stipulations when creating the heats: 1) a team can't be in the same league as an opponent in the division, and 2) a team can't be in the same division as an opponent if they both are the same olympic qualifying country (however, there is an exception to this rule as a Czech team playing in the Austrian league is considered an Austriam team and can end up in the same division as another Czech team if they are from the Czech league).
If I do change my mind and end up with free time (unlikely as I have some projects of my own to complete), I'd be interested in this – or the Deutsches Eishockey Liga