these Covid-cancelled games — & always has a backup game in place for the rescheduled games — to cover in case the cancelling team pulls out once again. (The backup game being against a team that has also cancelled in-conf games due to Covid.)

You screw up another team's schedule with a last-minute bail — hey, it's rough & all, given Covid — but you shouldn't be given back that game unconditionally — unless the team that's been screwed has a backup plan to ensure it won't happen a second time.