He's saying that that's why they chose that cut-off rather than lowering it to include other teams. They just cut off the number of teams at a point where the big markets happened to be, standings wise. If they'd been doing it in a manner that wasn't deliberately aimed at getting the Blackhawks et al. into the postseason, they would actually probably have cut it off at 16 or 20.
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