The 2016–17 GET-ligaen was the 78th season of Norway's premier ice hockey league, GET-ligaen.

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

Participating teams

Team City Arena Capacity Frisk Asker Asker Askerhallen 2,400 Kongsvinger Knights Kongsvinger Kongsvinger Ishall 2,000 Lillehammer IK Lillehammer Kristins Hall 3,194 Lørenskog IK Lørenskog Lørenskog Ishall 2,400 Manglerud Star Oslo Manglerudhallen 2,000 Sparta Warriors Sarpsborg Sparta Amfi 3,450 Stavanger Oilers Stavanger DNB Arena 4,377 Stjernen Fredrikstad Stjernehallen 2,473 Storhamar Hamar CC Amfi 7,000 Vålerenga Oslo Jordal Amfi Furuset Forum 4,450 1,200

Arenas

Vålerenga Ishockey played their last home game at Jordal Amfi 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 Sparta Warriors was played January 21, 2017. The match was played on Fredrikstad stadion 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 Updated as of February 28, 2017. 2016–17 GET-ligaen season Stavanger Oilersy 45 28 10 6 1 174 102 72 97 Lørenskogx 45 26 11 4 4 158 100 58 90 Storhamarx 45 21 14 3 7 131 104 27 76 Frisk Askerx 45 21 15 3 6 137 118 19 75 Vålerengax 45 20 16 4 5 135 111 24 73 Lillehammerx 45 17 16 9 3 138 131 7 72 Stjernenx 45 20 17 3 5 142 136 6 71 Sparta Warriorsx 45 18 20 1 6 128 111 17 62 Manglerud Starr 45 12 24 8 1 100 148 -48 53 Kongsvinger Knightsr 45 1 41 0 3 61 243 -182 6x – clinched playoff spot; y – clinched regular season league title; r – play in relegation series

Source: scoreboard.com

Statistics

Scoring leaders

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 28, 2017.

GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/– = Plus/Minus; PIM = Penalty Minutes

Player Team Van Guilder, Mark Mark Van Guilder Stavanger 45 24 41 65 +32 32Kissel, Dan Dan Kissel Stavanger 45 29 30 59 +27 16Lindström, Tobias Tobias Lindström Vålerenga 45 29 29 58 +19 38Backman, Victor Victor Backman Stjernen 40 26 28 54 +10 36Espeland, Stefan Stefan Espeland Lørenskog 45 10 42 52 +26 32Saponari, Vinny Vinny Saponari Frisk Asker 43 15 36 51 +2 14Laumann Ylven, Martin Martin Laumann Ylven Vålerenga 45 28 22 50 +18 30Krog, Jason Jason Krog Lørenskog 45 21 26 47 +24 14Vigier, Stephan Stephan Vigier Lillehammer 45 17 29 46 +11 56Ahlholm, Rasmus Rasmus Ahlholm Vålerenga 45 15 30 45 +11 8Soares, Josh Josh Soares Stavanger Oilers 43 14 31 45 +15 64 Source: hockey.no

Leading goaltenders The top five goaltenders based on goals against average. Updated as of March 25, 2016.

Player Team Source: pointstreak.com

Attendance

Team Arena Capacity Total Games Average % of Capacity Frisk Asker Askerhallen 2,400 Stavanger Oilers DNB Arena 4,377 Storhamar CC Amfi 7,000 Vålerenga Jordal Amfi 4,450 Kongsvinger Knights Kongsvinger Ishall 2,000 Lillehammer Kristins Hall 3,194 Lørenskog Lørenskog Ishall 2,450 Manglerud Star Manglerudhallen 2,000 Sparta Warriors Sparta Amfi 3,450 Stjernen Stjernehallen 2,473

Source:pointstreak.com

Coaching changes + Coaching changesOffseason Team 2015–16 coach 2016–17 coachStory / Accomplishments Vålerenga Ishockey Espen Knutsen Roy Johansen In June 2015, Knutsen announced that he would step down as head coach after the 2015-16 season. On 21 January 2016, Vålerenga announced national team coach Roy Johansen as Knutsen's replacement. Stavanger Oilers Petter Thoresen Pål Gulbrandsen Petter Thoresen was announced as the new head coach for the Norwegian national hockey team in December 2015. In February 2016, assistant coach Pål Gulbrandsen was announced as the new head coach of the Oilers, starting from the summer of 2016. Kongsvinger Knights Per Lundell Janne Saaavalainen On March 30, 2016 the club announced that Per Lundell did not want to extend his contract for 16/17. This is due to private, family reasons. On May 14, 2016, Janne Saaavalainen was presented as new head coach for the club. Storhamar Hockey Alexander Smirnov Sjur Robert Nilsen On April 29, Smirnov announced that he had signed with KHL club Ak Bars Kazan as part of their coaching team for the 2016-17 season. Sjur Robert Nilsen was announced as the new head coach on May 20.In-season Team Outgoing coach Incoming coachStory / Accomplishments Kongsvinger Knights Janne Saavalainen Anders Angelbrant Janne Saavalainen left Kongsvinger on 7 January. He was replaced by Anders Angelbrant.

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: hockey.no Norwegian Champions2017Stavanger Oilers7th title

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 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.

Standings Updated as of March 23, 2017. 2017–18 GET-ligaen playoffs Manglerud Starq 6 4 1 1 0 26 15 +11 14 Kongsvinger Knightsq 6 3 3 0 0 25 27 -2 9 Nidarosr 6 2 3 0 1 19 20 -1 7 Cometr 6 1 3 1 1 19 27 -8 6 q – qualified for next years GET-league; r – will play in next years 1. division

Source: hockey.no

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