Michigan State games help or hurt Cornell?

[adamw]

French,

The NCAA never publishes PWR. It's an USCHO creation. Well, its representation is an USCHO re-creation of the committee process.  When you say this weekend means squat, but means a lot in *current* PWR - that's not really accurate.   The only PWR that matters is how it looks at the end of the season.  Anyone doing PWR now is just using it as a guide - and it's mostly useless to look at until January. And even then it's just a guide.

PWR is not a cumulative thing.  It's meant to be a representation of a season's worth of events.  For that reason and more, this weekend's series is huge. The result will be a huge factor at the end of the road.

A split also benefits Cornell more than Michigan State - assuming MSU finishes in the top 15 of RPI - because of the Bonus Points criteria.