Montreal: Back to back nights?

That's how the PDL works, cram games in while in a certain area due to travel expenses.
Our team, the Menace, are playing tonight in St. Louis and then tomorrow in KC. You're right, that's not the best way to have teams playing their best, but it's how they have to do it since they're the bottom tier of teams and fundage is tight.

 

Back-to-back is a reality in the A-League. Some teams do this up to 5 times a year, though it's uneven across the league (some more than others). Richmond/Virigina Beach on consecutive nights (2 hour drive) would seem like heaven to most Western Conference teams, where a typical back to back could be Vancouver/Calgary (15 hour drive).

 

And there are only a finite number of weekends and too many fixtures. To get the games in on nights when teams have a chance to draw, they often have to play back-to-back (common ones besides Richmond-Va Beach have been Minnesota-Milwaukee, Vancouver-Seattle, Indiana-Cincinnati, among others).

 

Try this for a back to back. The Timbers play one night in El Paso. They play the following late afternoon in Milwaukee. Talk about a terrible trip for the players.

Seattle started the season with three games in four nights.

Such is life in the A-league.

 

I remember a back to back series in 2001 where Vancouver had to play El Paso one night, fly to Vancouver and play Portland the next night. Of course it had a happy ending with Vancouver destroying Portland 4-0 in the second game!