The 2011–12 GET-ligaen was the 73rd season of Norway's premier

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league,

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(known as

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for sponsorship reasons). The season began on 10 September 2011 with the final round of the regular season played on 1 March 2012. The

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won their first league championship after beating

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on 2 February 2012. With a total of 112 points, the Oilers broke the previous record of 108 points held by the

Sparta Warriors Ishockeyklubben Sparta Sarpsborg is a Norwegian ice hockey team based in Sarpsborg, Norway. They currently play in EliteHockey Ligaen. They play their home games in the Sparta Amfi arena and is Norway's oldest ice hockey rink. The team colours ...

(2011) and

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(2006).

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finished as runners-up ahead of

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. 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.

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for the final two berths in the 2012–13 GET-ligaen was held between 8 March and 24 March 2012. The

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won the tournament and gained promotion to the GET-ligaen for the first time in the team's history. Frisk Asker secured the runner-up spot and continued play at the top level; Manglerud Star was relegated to the

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

Regular season

Final standings

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Scoring leaders

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

Leading goaltenders

These were the top five goaltenders based on

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Attendance

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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

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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).

Bracket

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Game log

, (1) Stavanger Oilers vs. (8) Rosenborg ''Stavanger won series 4–0'' (2) Lørenskog vs. (7) Stjernen ''Lørenskog won series 4–0'' (3) Vålerenga vs. (6) Storhamar Dragons ''Vålerenga won series 4–3'' (4) Lillehammer vs. (5) Sparta Warriors ''Lillehammer won series 4–3'' , - , (1) Stavanger Oilers vs. (4) Lillehammer ''Stavanger won series 4–0'' (2) Lørenskog vs. (3) Vålerenga ''Lørenskog won series 4–2'' , - , (1) Stavanger Oilers vs. (2) Lørenskog ''Stavanger won series 4–2''

Scoring leaders

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

Leading goaltenders

These were the top five goaltenders in the playoffs based on

Qualification

After the regular season had ended, the two lowest ranked teams in the league and the two highest ranked teams in the

competed for the right to play in the 2012–13 GET-ligaen.

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, Manglerud Star and the

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. 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. 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

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Game log

, Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Round 6

Awards

All-Star team The following players were selected to the 2011–12 GET-ligaen All-Star team: *Goaltender: Tommy Johansen (Storhamar) *Defenseman:

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(Vålerenga) *Defenseman: Tim Kunes (Stavanger) *Center: Mats Frøshaug (Lørenskog) *Winger: James Sixsmith (Lørenskog) *Winger: Ryan MacMurchy (Stavanger) Other *Player of the year: Ryan MacMurchy (Stavanger) *Coach of the year:

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(Lørenskog) * Playoff MVP: Lars-Peder Nagel (Stavanger)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Get-Ligaen Season 2011-12 2011–12

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