Hockey playoffs begin Friday for Flying G’s

Gladwin’s Caden McKeever fires a shot past a defenseman for the FNV Griffins during the Flying G’s 4-2 victory last week.
Gladwin’s Caden McKeever fires a shot past a defenseman for the FNV Griffins during the Flying G’s 4-2 victory last week.

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The puck drops to open the Division 3 hockey state tournament this week and Gladwin fans have two ways of looking at last week’s results.

The Flying G’s went 1-2 in the final three games of the regular season and didn’t have much fun in the last one, a 6-1 loss at Midland Dow on Saturday.

Nevertheless, Dow is a larger Division 2 team that heads into the playoffs with a four-game winning strea…