2011–12 GET-ligaen season explained

2011–12 GET-ligaen season
League:	GET-ligaen
Sport:	Ice hockey
Duration:	10 September 2011–13 April 2012
No Of Games:	263
No Of Teams:	10
Tv:	TV 2 Sport
Season:	Regular season
League Champs:	Stavanger Oilers
League Champ Name:	League champions
Mvp:	Ryan MacMurchy
Top Scorer:	Ryan MacMurchy
Playoffs:	Playoffs
Conf1:	Norwegian
Conf1 Champ:	Stavanger Oilers
Playoffs Mvp:	Lars-Peder Nagel
Playoffs Mvp Link:	GET-ligaen Playoff MVP
Seasonslist:	GET-ligaen#Seasons
Seasonslistnames:	GET-ligaen
Prevseason Year:	2010–11
Nextseason Year:	2012–13

The 2011–12 GET-ligaen was the 73rd season of Norway's premier ice hockey league, Eliteserien (known as GET-ligaen for sponsorship reasons).

The season began on 10 September 2011 with the final round of the regular season played on 1 March 2012.^[1] The Stavanger Oilers won their first league championship after beating Frisk Asker on 2 February 2012.^[2] With a total of 112 points, the Oilers broke the previous record of 108 points held by the Sparta Warriors (2011) and Storhamar Dragons (2006).^[3] Lørenskog finished as runners-up ahead of Vålerenga.

The playoffs to determine the 2012 Norwegian champions began on 4 March 2012 and ended on 13 April 2012. Stavanger defeated Lørenskog by 4 games to 2 in the finals to claim their second Norwegian Championship title in three seasons. The playoffs were contested by the top eight teams in the regular season.

Qualification for the final two berths in the 2012–13 GET-ligaen was held between 8 March and 24 March 2012. The Tønsberg Vikings won the tournament and gained promotion to the GET-ligaen for the first time in the team's history.^[4] Frisk Asker secured the runner-up spot and continued play at the top level; Manglerud Star was relegated to the 1. divisjon.

Overall attendance surpassed 400,000 for the first time in league history.

Regular season

Final standings


45	35	3	1	6	216	100	112
45	30	3	1	11	190	102	91
45	28	1	2	14	209	131	88
45	26	1	5	13	168	106	85
45	22	5	2	16	166	112	75
45	20	2	4	19	148	146	71
45	16	1	2	26	114	167	55
45	14	3	1	27	113	165	52

45	7	2	2	34	84	202	27
45	5	1	2	37	78	255	19

Source: pointstreak.com

Scoring leaders

These were the top ten skaters based on points.^[5] If the list exceeds ten skaters because of a tie in points, all of the tied skaters are shown.

Player	Team
Ryan MacMurchy	Stavanger Oilers	44	37	39	76	+25	138
Martin Strandfeldt	Stavanger Oilers	45	34	36	70	+35	76
Shay Stephenson	Vålerenga	44	28	42	70	+28	163
Knut Henrik Spets	Lørenskog	45	22	44	66	+23	32
Gino Guyer	Lillehammer	45	22	36	58	+34	16
Kenny Corupe	Lørenskog	45	22	33	55	+30	70
Mats Frøshaug	Lørenskog	43	26	27	53	+26	24
R. J. Anderson	Lillehammer	45	19	34	53	+28	62
Lars Erik Spets	Lørenskog	43	17	36	53	+27	48
Henrik Malmström	Sparta Warriors	45	19	33	52	+9	50
Patrick Coulombe	Vålerenga	44	17	35	52	+26	58
Blake Evans	Vålerenga	45	15	37	52	+29	72
Tim Kunes	Stavanger Oilers	45	11	41	52	+35	34

Leading goaltenders

These were the top five goaltenders based on goals against average.^[6]

Player	Team
Jürgen Penker	Lørenskog	22	1299:47	17	5	43	3	.924	1.98
Ryan Nie	Lillehammer	45	2691:04	27	18	100	6	.917	2.23
Ruben Smith	Stavanger Oilers	34	1922:40	28	6	72	3	.918	2.25
Phil Osaer	Sparta Warriors	44	2584:24	26	18	101	5	.916	2.34
Simon Nordh	Rosenborg	34	1973:34	15	18	90	6	.916	2.74

Attendance

Team	Capacity	Total	Games	Average	% of Capacity
Frisk Tigers	2,400	17,075	23	742	30.9%
Storhamar Dragons	6,091	49,988	23	2,173	35.7%
Vålerenga	4,450	36,071	22	1,639	36.8%
Lillehammer	3,194	33,475	22	1,521	47.6%
Rosenborg	3,000	32,372	23	1,407	46.9%
Lørenskog	1,350	21,252	22	966	71.6%
Manglerud Star	2,000	7,953	23	345	17.3%
Stavanger Oilers	2,664	45,399	22	2,063	77.4%
Sparta Warriors	3,450	55,733	22	2,533	73.4%
Stjernen	2,473	28,341	23	1,232	49.8%

Source:pointstreak.com

Playoffs

After the regular season, the standard of eight teams qualified for the playoffs. In the first and second rounds, the highest remaining seed chooses which of the two lowest remaining seeds to be matched against. In each round the higher-seeded team is awarded home ice advantage. Each best-of-seven series follows a 1–1–1–1–1–1–1 format: the higher-seeded team plays at home for games 1 and 3 (plus 5 and 7 if necessary), and the lower-seeded team at home for games 2, 4 and 6 (if necessary).^[7]

Bracket

Source: pointstreak.com

Game log

|(1) Stavanger Oilers vs. (8) RosenborgStavanger won series 4–0

(2) Lørenskog vs. (7) StjernenLørenskog won series 4–0

(3) Vålerenga vs. (6) Storhamar DragonsVålerenga won series 4–3

(4) Lillehammer vs. (5) Sparta WarriorsLillehammer won series 4–3|-|(1) Stavanger Oilers vs. (4) LillehammerStavanger won series 4–0

(2) Lørenskog vs. (3) VålerengaLørenskog won series 4–2|-|(1) Stavanger Oilers vs. (2) LørenskogStavanger won series 4–2

Scoring leaders

These were the top ten skaters in the playoffs based on points.^[8] If the list exceeds ten skaters because of a tie in points, all of the tied skaters are shown.

Player	Team
Martin Strandfeldt	Stavanger Oilers	14	17	13	30	+14	58
Lars-Peder Nagel	Stavanger Oilers	14	6	18	24	+18	16
Ryan MacMurchy	Stavanger Oilers	13	9	12	21	+5	38
Christian Dahl Andersen	Stavanger Oilers	14	8	12	20	+12	10
Jimmy Kilpatrick	Stavanger Oilers	12	5	12	17	+4	47
Kenny Corupe	Lørenskog	16	10	6	16	+8	18
James Sixsmith	Lørenskog	16	6	10	16	+3	8
Tim Kunes	Stavanger Oilers	14	2	12	14	+10	2
R. J. Anderson	Lillehammer	11	2	12	14	+6	10
Mats Frøshaug	Lørenskog	16	8	4	12	+6	18
Alex Imbeault	Stavanger Oilers	14	6	6	12	−2	4
Lars Erik Spets	Lørenskog	16	5	7	12	−1	24
Gino Guyer	Lillehammer	11	4	8	12	+6	10

Leading goaltenders

These were the top five goaltenders in the playoffs based on goals against average.^[6]

Player	Team
Patrick DesRochers	Vålerenga	13	776:21	6	7	26	1	.935	2.01
Jürgen Penker	Lørenskog	16	965:18	10	6	35	3	.915	2.18
Ruben Smith	Stavanger Oilers	13	791:44	11	6	34	1	.916	2.58
Tommy Johansen	Storhamar Dragons	7	418:44	3	4	19	0	.917	2.72
Phil Osaer	Sparta Warriors	7	423:52	3	4	21	0	.894	2.97

Qualification

After the regular season had ended, the two lowest ranked teams in the league and the two highest ranked teams in the 1. divisjon competed for the right to play in the 2012–13 GET-ligaen. Comet, Frisk Asker, Manglerud Star and the Tønsberg Vikings took part. The tournament was played from 8 March to 24 March 2012 and was organized according to a double round robin format: each club played the others twice, home and away, for a total of six games. The points system and ranking method used were the same as in the GET-ligaen.^[9]

Tønsberg won five out of six games, securing promotion in the penultimate round by defeating Frisk Asker 4–3 on penalties. Frisk Asker eventually finished in second place by gaining a 1–0 win in regular time against Manglerud Star in the final round.^[10] This meant that the latter team was relegated to the 1. divisjon after three consecutive seasons in the top flight. Comet lost all its games and finished last.

Final standings


6	3	2	1	0	32	17	14
6	2	1	3	0	24	18	11

6	2	2	0	2	26	14	10
6	0	0	1	5	13	46	1

Source: hockey.no

Game log

|Round 1Round 2Round 3Round 4Round 5Round 6

Awards

All-Star team

The following players were selected to the 2011–12 GET-ligaen All-Star team:^[11]

Goaltender: Tommy Johansen (Storhamar)
Defenseman: Patrick Coulombe (Vålerenga)
Defenseman: Tim Kunes (Stavanger)
Center: Mats Frøshaug (Lørenskog)
Winger: James Sixsmith (Lørenskog)
Winger: Ryan MacMurchy (Stavanger)

Other

Player of the year: Ryan MacMurchy^[11] (Stavanger)
Coach of the year: David Livingston^[11] (Lørenskog)
Playoff MVP

Lars-Peder Nagel^[12] (Stavanger)

Notes and References

Web site: League Schedule – GET-ligaen 2011–12 . Pointstreak . 2012-03-04.
Web site: Stavanger fikk sitt første seriemesterskap . Dagbladet . 2012-02-02 . 2012-03-04 . no.
Web site: Oilers tok historisk rekord. Stavanger Aftenblad. 2012-02-23. 2012-03-04. no.
Web site: Nå er de klare for eliteserien . NRK . 2012-02-23. 2012-03-30. no.
Web site: Scoring Leaders – GET-ligaen 2011–12 . 2012-03-04.
Web site: Goalie Leaders – GET-ligaen 2011–12 . Pointstreak . 2012-03-04.
Web site: Sluttspill om Norgesmesterskapet menn 2011–2012 . Norwegian Ice Hockey Association . 2012-03-04 . no . https://web.archive.org/web/20120207032559/http://hockey.no/t2.asp?p=4916&x=1&a=269987# . 2012-02-07 . dead .
Web site: Scoring Leaders – Playoffs 2011–12 . 2012-04-21.
Web site: Kampreglement . Norwegian Ice Hockey Association . 2012-03-11 . no .
Web site: Nyström sendte Frisk til eliten . Aftenposten . 2012-03-24 . 2012-03-31 . no . https://web.archive.org/web/20120327180814/http://sport.aftenposten.no/sport/ishockey/article229730.ece# . 2012-03-27 . dead .
Web site: To Oilers-spillere på årets lag . Aftenposten . 2012-04-09 . 2012-04-12 . no . https://web.archive.org/web/20120411005318/http://sport.aftenposten.no/sport/ishockey/article231728.ece# . 2012-04-11 . dead .
Web site: Oilers er norgesmestere . Aftenposten . 2012-04-13 . 2012-04-21 . no . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120415210317/http://sport.aftenposten.no/sport/ishockey/article232446.ece . 2012-04-15 .