| 2017–18 GET-ligaen season | |
| League: |  GET-ligaen |
| Sport: | Ice hockey |
| Duration: | September 2017 – mid April 2018 |
| No Of Games: | 45 |
| No Of Teams: | 10 |
| Tv: | TV 2 Sport |
| Season: | Regular season |
| Season Champs: | Storhamar |
| Season Champ Name: | League champions |
| Playoffs: | Playoffs |
| Conf1: | Norwegian |
| Conf1 Champ: | Storhamar |
| Seasonslist: | GET-ligaen#Seasons |
| Seasonslistnames: | GET-ligaen |
| Prevseason Year: | 2016–17 |
| Nextseason Year: | 2018–19 |
The 2017–18 GET-ligaen was the 79th season of Norway's premier ice hockey league, GET-ligaen.
The regular season began in September 2017. There was no team changes from the 2016–17 season.
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On the season opener September 8, Vålerenga Ishockey played Storhamar Hockey in Gjøvik Olympic Cavern Hall.[1]
Since Nye Jordal Amfi will not be completed until the 2019–20 season, Vålerenga used Furuset Forum as a temporary arena the whole season.[2] Previous to Vålerengas match against Storhamar November 13, Furuset Forums capacity was 1,450.[3] [4] [5]
Lillehammer returned to Håkons Hall on November 18, when they met Storhamar in front of a crowd of 10,031 people, which was new indoor attendance record for a Norwegian league match.[6]
Updated as of February 28, 2018.
| 2017–18 GET-ligaen season | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Storhamary | 45 | 35 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 183 | 88 | 95 | 108 | |
| Sparta Warriorsx | 45 | 25 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 152 | 109 | 43 | 93 | |
| Lillehammerx | 45 | 24 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 171 | 123 | 48 | 88 | |
| Frisk Askerx | 45 | 24 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 159 | 120 | 39 | 84 | |
| Vålerengax | 45 | 18 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 144 | 132 | 12 | 69 | |
| Stavanger Oilersx | 45 | 16 | 16 | 4 | 9 | 129 | 121 | 8 | 65 | |
| Manglerud Starx | 45 | 15 | 21 | 4 | 5 | 132 | 154 | -22 | 58 | |
| Lørenskogx | 45 | 11 | 25 | 4 | 5 | 118 | 165 | -47 | 46 | |
| Stjernenr | 45 | 9 | 25 | 6 | 5 | 96 | 144 | -48 | 44 | |
| Kongsvinger Knightsr | 45 | 3 | 35 | 4 | 3 | 90 | 218 | -128 | 20 | |
Source: hockey.no
List shows the ten best skaters based on the number of points during the regular season. If two or more skaters are tied (i.e. same number of points, goals and played games), all of the tied skaters are shown. Updated as of February 27, 2018.
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/– = Plus/Minus; PIM = Penalty Minutes
| Player | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Garry Nunn | 45 | 24 | 38 | 62 | +22 | 32 | ||
 Tobias Lindström | 44 | 28 | 33 | 61 | +12 | 36 | ||
| Rasmus Ahlholm | 45 | 26 | 34 | 60 | +2 | 10 | ||
| David Morley | 45 | 22 | 38 | 60 | +6 | 44 | ||
| Stephan Vigier | 45 | 27 | 29 | 56 | +3 | 57 | ||
| 43 | 15 | 37 | 52 | +27 | 59 | |||
 Joey Benik | 39 | 23 | 26 | 49 | +16 | 16 | ||
| Taylor Foster | 45 | 23 | 25 | 48 | +13 | 8 | ||
| Brett Cameron | 45 | 24 | 24 | 48 | +7 | 69 | ||
| 40 | 21 | 26 | 47 | +39 | 22 | |||
| 45 | 20 | 27 | 47 | +12 | 24 |
The top five goaltenders based on goals against average. Updated as of June 8, 2017.
Source: hockey.no| Team | Arena | Capacity | Total | Games | Average | % of Capacity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frisk Asker | 2,400 | ||||||
| Stavanger Oilers | 4,377 | 91,088 | 25 | 3,644 | 83,2 | ||
| Storhamar Hockey | 7,000 | 137,307 | 30 | 4,577 | 65,3 | ||
| Vålerenga | 2,050 | 32,048 | 25 | 1,282 | |||
| Kongsvinger Knights | 2,000 | ||||||
| Lillehammer | 3,194 | 59,814 | 30 | 1,994 | 62,4 | ||
| Lørenskog | 1,350 | ||||||
| Manglerud Star | 2,000 | ||||||
| Sparta Warriors | 4,000 | ||||||
| Stjernen | 2,473 |
Source:hockey.no
| Team | 2016–17 coach | 2017–18 coach | Story / Accomplishments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Storhamar Hockey | Sjur Robert Nilsen | Fredrik Söderström | On March 17, 2017, Sjur Robert Nilsen left Storhamar after his team was eliminated from the playoffs by Sparta Warriors.[7] On April 28, Fredrik Söderström was named as the new head coach. He had previously coached IK Oskarshamn in Sweden.[8] |
| Sparta Warriors | Lenny Eriksson | Sjur Robert Nilsen | On March 25, 2017. Lenny Eriksson resigned as heach coach. On April 10, he was replaced by Sjur Robert Nilsen.[9] |
| Stjernen | Jarmo Tolvanen | Leif Strömberg | On April 28, 2017, Stjernen recruited Leif Strömberg as new head coach. He replaced Jarmo Tolvanen.[10] |
| Kongsvinger Knights | Janne Saavalainen
| Ed Galiani | On May 29, 2017, Kongsvinger hired Ed Galiani as their new head coach. He replaced Anders Angelbrant, who had been interim head coach since Janne Saavalainen left in January 2017.[11] |
After the regular season, the top eight teams qualified for the playoffs. In the first and second rounds, the highest remaining seed chose which of the two lowest remaining seeds to be matched against. In each round the higher-seeded team was awarded home ice advantage. Each best-of-seven series followed a 1–1–1–1–1–1–1 format: the higher-seeded team played 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).
Updated as of April 11, 2018.Source: hockey.no
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 2018–19 GET-ligaen. The tournament was organized according to a double round robin format, where each club played the others twice, home and away, for a total of six games. The points system and ranking method used, was the same as in the GET-ligaen.
Updated as of March 22, 2018.
| 2017–18 GET-ligaen playoffs | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stjernenq | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 34 | 19 | 15 | 17 | |
| Ringerike Panthersq | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 18 | 2 | 10 | |
| Narvikr | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 20 | -3 | 8 | |
| Kongsvinger Knightsr | 6 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 23 | -14 | 1 | |
Source: hockey.no
All-Star team
The following players were selected to the 2017 - 18 GET-ligaen All-Star team:[12]
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