Double headers.
They're massively familiar in baseball, but not so much in the NHL. Home-and-home series are something we're more familiar with, but the geographical makeup of the AIHL and its limited budget in comparison to the NHL presents some interesting anomalies not necessarily familiar to North American audiences.
One of those is the home double-header against the same team-an experience familiar to AIHL teams, especially when they face the Perth Thunder, who play closer to Jakarta than they do Sydney, and a whole continent away from the rest of the league.
This weekend the Melbourne Mustangs make the long trip across Australia hoping to repeat the success of Chowder's other team, the Newcastle North Stars, who took two wins vs the Perth Thunder to open the season.