MADISON – It's the final home series of the season and for the Wisconsin men’s hockey team the weekend comes with multiple layers of importance. “It's our last two home games of our regular season and we're playing for our playoff life,” Badgers coach Mike Hastings said. “We're playing for the (NCAA Power Index). At the end of the day, we're playing for Friday." The Badgers, who are ranked No. 13 in the USCHO poll for the third straight week, host No. 2 Michigan on Feb. 20-21 with a chance to enhance their résumé for the NPI, a new metric this year that will be used to help select the 16-team NCAA tournament field . They could also possibly move into third place in the Big Ten. It is also...
