While the new professional women's hockey league will likely begin with six teams, expansion is planned, both domestically, and potentially internationally.

Six teams isn't enough. It's a point that the new ownership group for the soon to be lone professional women's hockey league option in North America. Stan Kasten, the president and part owner of MLB's Los Angeles Dodgers and a member of the Mark Walter Group, who along with Billie Jean King Enterprises acquired the PHF and has been working with the PWHPA to form a new women's hockey league, knows there needs to be more.

How quickly the new league gets there will be dependent on many things, but expansion is absolutely in the plans.

"We certainly hope that the future is much more than whatever number of teams we start out with in year one," said Kasten.

Not only will that expansion, according to Kasten, build upon the footprint in North America, there is hopes that expansion could someday go international.

"Once we really do have our own internal proof of concept we certainly have plans to expand, and I mean eventually expand, not only domestically, but eventually internationally, that's what our plan is going forward."

The current forecast for year one of the new professional women's hockey league is six teams. It's a decrease in four teams North America wide as the four teams from the PWHPA and seven teams from the PHF will now contract into one six-team entity.

Kasten however, believes the new league will have the ability to welcome in top talent year over year, and knows that someday, a development league will need to be considered.

"We'll be able to accommodate the incoming number for our league," said Kasten of NCAA and European players who want to join the new league.

"We will also be looking for what we can do, in terms of eventually a developmental league."

Watch Kasten's comments on the topic in the video above.