On the 4 day weeks, I believe each one, the game at the end of the 4 days is a home game, so at least you get in a couple practices; no travel day like last year where these 4 day weeks the game was on the road.
2 out of the 3, the first game is in the evening though, which means they're not likely flying home until the following day. So I'm guessing there's still a travel day. It's just not the day before the game.
Either way, all things considered, 3 tough scheduled games out of 18 isn't bad. Plenty of worse things that we could be faced with.