2011–12 GET-ligaen season

2011–12 GET-ligaen season
League GET-ligaen
Sport Ice hockey
Duration 10 September 2011–13 April 2012
Number of games 263
Number of teams 10
TV partner(s) TV 2 Sport
Regular season
League champions Stavanger Oilers
Season MVP Ryan MacMurchy
Top scorer Ryan MacMurchy
Playoffs
Norwegian champions Stavanger Oilers
Playoffs MVP Lars-Peder Nagel

The 2011–12 GET-ligaen was the seventy-third 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.[4] Stavanger defeated Lørenskog by 4 games to 2 in the finals to claim their second Norwegian Championship title in three seasons.[5] 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.[6] 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

Team GP W OTW/SOW OTL/SOL L GF GA Pts
Stavanger Oilers 45 35 3 1 6 216 100 112
Lørenskog 45 30 3 1 11 190 102 91
Vålerenga 45 28 1 2 14 209 131 88
Lillehammer 45 26 1 5 13 168 106 85
Sparta Warriors 45 22 5 2 16 166 112 75
Storhamar Dragons 45 20 2 4 19 148 146 71
Stjernen 45 16 1 2 26 114 167 55
Rosenborg 45 14 3 1 27 113 165 52
Manglerud Star 45 7 2 2 34 84 202 27
Frisk Asker 45 5 1 2 37 78 255 19

Source: pointstreak.com

Scoring leaders

These were the top ten skaters based on points.[7] If the list exceeds ten skaters because of a tie in points, all of the tied skaters are shown.

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

Leading goaltenders

These were the top five goaltenders based on goals against average.[8]

Player Team GP TOI W L GA SO Sv% GAA
Austria Jürgen Penker Lørenskog 22 1299:47 17 5 43 3 .924 1.98
Canada Ryan Nie Lillehammer 45 2691:04 27 18 100 6 .917 2.23
Norway Ruben Smith Stavanger Oilers 34 1922:40 28 6 72 3 .918 2.25
United States Phil Osaer Sparta Warriors 44 2584:24 26 18 101 5 .916 2.34
Sweden Simon Nordh Rosenborg 34 1973:34 15 18 90 6 .916 2.74

Attendance

Team Arena Capacity Total Games Average % of Capacity
Frisk Tigers Askerhallen 2,400 17,075 23 742 30.9%
Storhamar Dragons Hamar OL-Amfi 6,091 49,988 23 2,173 35.7%
Vålerenga Jordal Amfi 4,450 36,071 22 1,639 36.8%
Lillehammer Kristins Hall 3,194 33,475 22 1,521 47.6%
Rosenborg Leangen Ishall 3,000 32,372 23 1,407 46.9%
Lørenskog Lørenskog Ishall 1,350 21,252 22 966 71.6%
Manglerud Star Manglerudhallen 2,000 7,953 23 345 17.3%
Stavanger Oilers Siddishallen 2,664 45,399 22 2,063 77.4%
Sparta Warriors Sparta Amfi 3,450 55,733 22 2,533 73.4%
Stjernen Stjernehallen 2,473 28,341 23 1,232 49.8%
Total Games Average
327,659 225 1,456

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).[4]

Bracket

  Quarter-finals Semi-finals Finals
                           
  1  Stavanger Oilers 4  
8  Rosenborg 0  
  1  Stavanger Oilers 4  
  4  Lillehammer 0  
2  Lørenskog 4
  7  Stjernen 0  
(Pairings are re-seeded after the first round)   1  Stavanger Oilers 4
  2  Lørenskog 2
  3  Vålerenga 4  
6  Storhamar Dragons 3  
  2  Lørenskog 4
  3  Vålerenga 2  
4  Lillehammer 4
  5  Sparta Warriors 3  

Source: pointstreak.com

Norwegian Champions
2012
Stavanger Oilers
2nd title

Game log

2012 Norwegian Ice Hockey Championship Game Log

Scoring leaders

These were the top ten skaters in the playoffs based on points.[9] If the list exceeds ten skaters because of a tie in points, all of the tied skaters are shown.

Player Team GP G A Pts +/– PIM
Sweden Martin Strandfeldt Stavanger Oilers 14 17 13 30 +14 58
Norway Lars-Peder Nagel Stavanger Oilers 14 6 18 24 +18 16
Canada Ryan MacMurchy Stavanger Oilers 13 9 12 21 +5 38
Norway Christian Dahl Andersen Stavanger Oilers 14 8 12 20 +12 10
United States Jimmy Kilpatrick Stavanger Oilers 12 5 12 17 +4 47
Canada Kenny Corupe Lørenskog 16 10 6 16 +8 18
United States James Sixsmith Lørenskog 16 6 10 16 +3 8
United States Tim Kunes Stavanger Oilers 14 2 12 14 +10 2
United States R. J. Anderson Lillehammer 11 2 12 14 +6 10
Norway Mats Frøshaug Lørenskog 16 8 4 12 +6 18
Canada Alex Imbeault Stavanger Oilers 14 6 6 12 -2 4
Norway Lars Erik Spets Lørenskog 16 5 7 12 -1 24
United States 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.[8]

Player Team GP TOI W L GA SO Sv% GAA
Canada Patrick DesRochers Vålerenga 13 776:21 6 7 26 1 .935 2.01
Austria Jürgen Penker Lørenskog 16 965:18 10 6 35 3 .915 2.18
Norway Ruben Smith Stavanger Oilers 13 791:44 11 6 34 1 .916 2.58
Norway Tommy Johansen Storhamar Dragons 7 418:44 3 4 19 0 .917 2.72
United States 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.[10]

Tønsberg won five out of six games, securing promotion in the penultimate round by defeating Frisk Asker 4–3 on penalties.[11] Frisk Asker eventually finished in second place by gaining a 1–0 win in regular time against Manglerud Star in the final round.[12] 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

Team GP W OTW/SOW OTL/SOL L GF GA Pts
Tønsberg Vikings 6 3 2 1 0 32 17 14
Frisk Asker 6 2 1 3 0 24 18 11
Manglerud Star 6 2 2 0 2 26 14 10
Comet 6 0 0 1 5 13 46 1

Source: hockey.no

Game Log

2012–13 GET-ligaen Qualification Game Log

Awards

All-Star team

The following players were selected to the 2011–12 GET-ligaen All-Star team:[19]

Other

References

  1. ↑ "League Schedule - GET-ligaen 2011–12". Pointstreak. Retrieved 2012-03-04.
  2. ↑ "Stavanger fikk sitt første seriemesterskap". Dagbladet (in Norwegian). 2012-02-02. Retrieved 2012-03-04.
  3. ↑ "Oilers tok historisk rekord". Stavanger Aftenblad (in Norwegian). 2012-02-23. Retrieved 2012-03-04.
  4. 1 2 "Sluttspill om Norgesmesterskapet menn 2011-2012". Norwegian Ice Hockey Association (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2012-03-04.
  5. 1 2 "Oilers er norgesmestere". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 2012-04-13. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
  6. ↑ "Nå er de klare for eliteserien". NRK (in Norwegian). 2012-02-23. Retrieved 2012-03-30.
  7. ↑ "Scoring Leaders - GET-ligaen 2011–12". Retrieved 2012-03-04.
  8. 1 2 "Goalie Leaders - GET-ligaen 2011–12". Pointstreak. Retrieved 2012-03-04.
  9. ↑ "Scoring Leaders - Playoffs 2011–12". Retrieved 2012-04-21.
  10. ↑ "Kampreglement" (PDF). Norwegian Ice Hockey Association (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2012-03-11.
  11. 1 2 "Frisk-tap ga Tønsberg-opprykk". Budstikka (in Norwegian). 2012-03-22. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
  12. ↑ "Nyström sendte Frisk til eliten". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 2012-03-24. Retrieved 2012-03-31.
  13. ↑ "Det holdt ikke helt inn". IK Comet Halden (in Norwegian). 2012-03-09. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
  14. ↑ "Tap mot Manglerud Star". IK Comet Halden (in Norwegian). 2012-03-11. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
  15. ↑ "Krise for Frisk i kvalikspillet". Budstikka (in Norwegian). 2012-03-14. Retrieved 2012-03-18.
  16. ↑ "Vikings klarte ikke å sikre opprykket". Tønsberg Blad (in Norwegian). 2012-03-18. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
  17. ↑ "Frisk utklasset Comet". Budstikka (in Norwegian). 2012-03-18. Retrieved 2012-03-18.
  18. ↑ "Rotet bort seieren". Halden Arbeiderblad (in Norwegian). 2012-03-24. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
  19. 1 2 3 "To Oilers-spillere på årets lag". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 2012-04-09. Retrieved 2012-04-12.

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