The 2016–17 GET-ligaen was the 78th season of Norway's premier

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GET-ligaen Eliteserien, known as Fjordkraftligaen due to sponsorship, is the premier Norwegian ice hockey league, organised by the Norwegian Ice Hockey Association. It comprises 10 clubs and works on the premise of promotion and relegation, in which the t ...

. The regular season began play in September 2016. There were no team changes from the 2015–16 season.

Participating teams

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Arenas

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played their last home game at

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on January 7. A new arena will be constructed at the site, planned for completion in September 2018. Vålerenga will finish the season with Furuset Forum as a temporary arena.

Regular season

Winter Classic

An outdoor match featuring Stjernen and

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was played January 21, 2017. The match was played on

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and was the first major outdoor match in Norway in the 21st century. The match ended with a 3-0 victory for Sparta in front of a record audience of 12.500.

Standings

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Statistics

Scoring leaders

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Leading goaltenders

The top five goaltenders based on

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. Updated as of March 25, 2016. Source
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Attendance

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Coaching changes

Playoffs

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).

Bracket

Updated as of April 11, 2017. Source
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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 2017–18 GET-ligaen. The tournament was organized according to a double

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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.

Standings

Updated as of March 23, 2017. q – qualified for next years GET-league; r – will play in next years 1. division Source
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References

External links

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