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Providence College is right where it needs to be — near the top of its game — as it faces off with UMass Lowell in the Hockey East semifinals on Friday at 5 p.m. (NESN and NBCSN) at the TD Garden in Boston.
Returning to the scene of their stunning NCAA championship win last April, coach Nate Leaman’s Friars are riding a school-record 10-game winning streak.