The 2012–13 GET-ligaen was the 74th season of Norway's premier

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league,

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(known as

GET-ligaen EliteHockey Ligaen (EHL) 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 two teams who placed last must play ...

for sponsorship reasons).

Regular season

Final standings

''GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; OTW = Overtime Wins; OTL = Overtime losses; SOW = Shootout Wins; SOL = Shootout losses; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; Pts = Points; C = Champions''
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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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Qualification

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

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competed for the right to play in the 2013–14 GET-ligaen.

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, Ringerike Panthers, Rosenborg and the

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took part. The tournament was played from 7 March to 24 March 2013 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.

Final standings

''GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; OTW = Overtime Wins; OTL = Overtime losses; SOW = Shootout Wins; SOL = Shootout losses; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; Pts = Points''
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Awards

All-Star team The following players were selected to the 2012–13 GET-ligaen All-Star team: *Goaltender:

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(Vålerenga) *Defenseman:

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(Frisk) *Defenseman: Timothy Kunes (Stavanger) *Center: Christian Dahl-Andersen (Stavanger) *Winger: Tyler Donati (Vålerenga) *Winger:

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(Vålerenga) Other *Player of the year: Christian Dahl-Andersen (Stavanger) *Coach of the year:

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(Frisk) * Playoff MVP: Henrik Holm (Stavanger)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Get-Ligaen Season 2012-13 2012-13 Nor