They have 4 opponents and play 5 games against each one. Nobody wants to make 2 trips so they have 2 home & 3 away, or 3 home & 2 away against each team. Since this team relies upon gate revenue more than any other, I believe they are entitled to have their home games spread about.
Until this year they never had the need to play five games against another team. This year they have 5 games against each of four teams.
For the home games, for sure they need to do the 3 in 3 nights. But for the road games, my guess is that this is COVID-related with the goal of reducing time in airplanes. All of their road games are in Toronto except for the ones in St. Catharines with Brock - they could easily have scheduled 3 weekends with 2 games versus the 2 weekends with 3 games. I think travel is also the main reason they put Lakehead in the mid west division rather than the far west division (which is where they were the last time this aligment was used) - much less travel for Lakehead to schools in the mid west division once their plane lands.
Ontario dropped the capacity limits we were told its all systems goThat’s gonna be a brutal second half for the players , and kinda sucks to see that happen to the second best fan base in the CIS
Edit: I suppose they aren’t allowing fans anyway are they?
