2011–12 SM-liiga season

The 2011–12 SM-liiga season is the 37th season of the SM-liiga, the top level of ice hockey in Finland, since the league's formation in 1975. 
==Teams==
Team 	City 	Head coach 	Arena 	Capacity	Captain
 	Pori 	Karri Kivi 	Porin jäähalli 	 	Ville Uusitalo
Blues 	Espoo 	Lauri Marjamäki 	Barona Areena 	 	Toni Kähkönen
HIFK 	Helsinki 	Petri Matikainen	Helsingin jäähalli 	 	Ville Peltonen
HPK 	Hämeenlinna 	Timo Lehkonen‡ 	Patria-areena 	 	Marko Tuulola
Ilves 	Tampere 	Seppo Hiitelä‡ 	Tampereen jäähalli 	 	Martti Järventie
Jokerit 	Helsinki 	Erkka Westerlund	Hartwall Areena 	 	Ossi Väänänen
JYP 	 	Jyrki Aho‡ 	Jyväskylän jäähalli 	 	Juha-Pekka Hytönen
KalPa 	Kuopio 	Tuomas Tuokkola 	Niiralan monttu 	 	Sami Kapanen
Kärpät 	Oulu 	Hannu Aravirta 	Oulun Energia Areena	 	Ilkka Mikkola
Lukko 	Rauma 	Juha Vuori‡ 	Äijänsuo Arena 	 	Otto Honkaheimo
Pelicans	Lahti 	Kai Suikkanen 	Isku Areena 	 	Arttu Luttinen
SaiPa 	Lappeenranta	Ari-Pekka Selin 	Kisapuisto 	 	Ville Koho
Tappara 	Tampere 	Risto Dufva‡ 	Tampereen jäähalli 	 	Pekka Saravo
TPS 	Turku 	Pekka Virta 	Turkuhalli 	 	Ville Vahalahti
* Head coaches marked with ‡ took their jobs mid-season.
== Regular season ==
Each team played four times against every other team (twice home and twice away), getting to 52 games. Additionally, the teams were divided to two groups, where teams would play one extra game. One group included Blues, HIFK, Jokerit, JYP, KalPa, Pelicans and SaiPa, while other had HPK, Ilves, Kärpät, Lukko, Tappara, TPS and Ässät.
Additionally, there were two games where teams could choose the opponents. These were played back-to-back in January and the choices were made in December, with team with lowest point total to that date was able to choose first. These pairs were: Ilves-Tappara, SaiPa-HPK, TPS-Lukko, Kärpät-Blues, JYP-HIFK, Jokerit-Pelicans and Ässät-KalPa.
Team 	GP	W 	OTW	OTL	L 	GF 	GA 	+/−	P
KalPa 	60	34	3 	7 	16	180	139	+41	115
Pelicans	60	30	9 	3 	18	213	155	+58	111
HIFK 	60	33	6 	0 	21	194	149	+45	111
JYP 	60	30	7 	4 	19	168	122	+46	108
Ässät 	60	31	4 	5 	20	189	150	+39	106
Jokerit 	60	24	8 	13 	15	183	155	+28	101
Kärpät 	60	29	4 	4 	23	164	148	+16	99
Blues 	60	18	9 	10 	23	148	165	-17	82
Lukko 	60	21	7 	4 	28	162	167	-5 	81
TPS 	60	21	6 	3 	30	134	180	-46	78
SaiPa 	60	18	5 	13 	24	155	176	-21	77
Tappara 	60	20	4 	5 	31	132	188	-56	73
HPK 	60	15	6 	5 	34	132	201	-69	62
Ilves 	60	10	8 	10 	32	140	199	-59	56
== Playoffs ==
Wild card round (best-of-three)
Kärpät-TPS 2-0
:Kärpät-TPS 4-1
:TPS-Kärpät 1-2
Blues-Lukko 2-1
:Blues-Lukko 1-0 (OT)
:Lukko-Blues 2-0
:Blues-Lukko 6-3
Quarterfinals (best-of-seven)
KalPa-Blues 1-0
:KalPa-Blues 3-1
Pelicans-Kärpät 1-0
:Pelicans-Kärpät 5-0
HIFK-Jokerit 0-1
:HIFK-Jokerit 1-3
JYP-Ässät 1-0
:JYP-Ässät 4-1
==Team Photos==
11-12HPK.jpg|HPK
11-12Ilves.jpg|Ilves
11-12TPS.jpg|TPS
11-12Tappara.jpg|Tappara
11-12JokHel.jpg|Jokerit
Category:SM-Liiga season
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