northvanman
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No schedule posted on the OUA site yet, but McGill and Nipissing both have schedules posted on their respective team sites.
Last year the OUA East included 9 teams who played a total of 27 games. The West included 10 teams who played a total of 28 games. A check of the OUA hockey landing page shows last year's standings but with Nipissing now in the West. Looking at Nipissing's schedule it does seem that this move has happened as the majority of their games are against OUA West teams. So it seems that the league will move forward with an 11 team West division and an 8 team East division.
Based on both schedules, divisional opponents are played two or three times each. Division crossover games are back but the schedule is unbalanced - McGill plays every OUA West team at least once (York twice); Nipissing plays each OUA East team once. Looks like each division is back to 28 games.
It is interesting that the league continues to flip flop on the crossover games. No doubt the pandemic influenced not having them, but the last season the league had full division crossovers was 2016/17. After that season it was dropped down to 4 crossovers per team per season until the end of the 19/20 season - I recall this was the result of some coaches wanting to reduce the amount of travel.
Last year the OUA East included 9 teams who played a total of 27 games. The West included 10 teams who played a total of 28 games. A check of the OUA hockey landing page shows last year's standings but with Nipissing now in the West. Looking at Nipissing's schedule it does seem that this move has happened as the majority of their games are against OUA West teams. So it seems that the league will move forward with an 11 team West division and an 8 team East division.
Based on both schedules, divisional opponents are played two or three times each. Division crossover games are back but the schedule is unbalanced - McGill plays every OUA West team at least once (York twice); Nipissing plays each OUA East team once. Looks like each division is back to 28 games.
It is interesting that the league continues to flip flop on the crossover games. No doubt the pandemic influenced not having them, but the last season the league had full division crossovers was 2016/17. After that season it was dropped down to 4 crossovers per team per season until the end of the 19/20 season - I recall this was the result of some coaches wanting to reduce the amount of travel.