‘”I think that if we go to 24 [teams], you’re going to see the [New York] Rangers in some way,” he said in his weekly appearance on WGR. “The Rangers would be ahead of Buffalo, so I think one of the things I think they’re considering is if we go by division, like of the top-12 [in the Eastern Conference], seven are in the [Metropolitan] and five are in the Atlantic. The Rangers would be the seventh team in the Metro and go to the Atlantic. They’re talking about the same thing out West with seven in the Central and five in the Pacific, and one of the [Central] teams might move into the Pacific.”‘