2016–17 GET-ligaen season

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	6
x – 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	32
Kissel, Dan Dan Kissel 	Stavanger 	45	29	30	59	+27	16
Lindström, Tobias Tobias Lindström 	Vålerenga 	45	29	29	58	+19	38
Backman, Victor Victor Backman 	Stjernen 	40	26	28	54	+10	36
Espeland, Stefan Stefan Espeland 	Lørenskog 	45	10	42	52	+26	32
Saponari, Vinny Vinny Saponari 	Frisk Asker 	43	15	36	51	+2 	14
Laumann Ylven, Martin Martin Laumann Ylven	Vålerenga 	45	28	22	50	+18	30
Krog, Jason Jason Krog 	Lørenskog 	45	21	26	47	+24	14
Vigier, Stephan Stephan Vigier 	Lillehammer 	45	17	29	46	+11	56
Ahlholm, Rasmus Rasmus Ahlholm 	Vålerenga 	45	15	30	45	+11	8
Soares, 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 changes
Offseason 	Offseason 	Offseason 	Offseason
Team 	2015–16 coach 	2016–17 coach 	Story / 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 	In-season 	In-season 	In-season
Team 	Outgoing coach 	Incoming coach 	Story / 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 Champions2017
Stavanger 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
==References==
==External links==
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