2011–12 GET-ligaen season

The 2011–12 GET-ligaen is the seventy-second season of Norway's premier ice hockey league, Eliteserien (known as GET-ligaen for sponsorship reasons).
The season began on 10 September 2011 with the final round of the regular season played on 1 March 2012. The Stavanger Oilers won their first league championship after beating Frisk Asker on 2 February. With a total of 112 points, the Oilers broke the previous record of 108 points held by the Sparta Warriors (2011) and Storhamar Dragons (2006). Lørenskog finished as runners-up ahead of Vålerenga.
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.
Qualification for the final two berths in the 2012–13 GET-ligaen was held between 8 March and 24 March 2012. The Tønsberg Vikings 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 1. divisjon.
Overall attendance surpassed 400,000 for the first time in league history.
==Regular season==
===Final standings===
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Stavanger Oilers 	45	35	3	1	6 	216	100	112	
Lørenskog 	45	30	3	1	11	190	102	91 	
Vålerenga 	45	28	1	2	14	209	131	88 	
Lillehammer 	45	26	1	5	13	168	106	85 	
Sparta Warriors 	45	22	5	2	16	166	112	75 	
Storhamar Dragons	45	20	2	4	19	148	146	71 	
Stjernen 	45	16	1	2	26	114	167	55 	
Rosenborg 	45	14	3	1	27	113	165	52 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Manglerud Star 	45	7 	2	2	34	84 	202	27 	
Frisk Asker 	45	5 	1	2	37	78 	255	19 	
Source: pointstreak.com
===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.
Player 	Team 	 	 	 	 	 	
Ryan MacMurchy 	Stavanger Oilers	44	37	39	76	+25	138
Martin Strandfeldt	Stavanger Oilers	45	34	36	70	+35	76
Shay Stephenson 	Vålerenga 	44	28	42	70	+28	163
Knut Henrik Spets 	Lørenskog 	45	22	44	66	+23	32
Gino Guyer 	Lillehammer 	45	22	36	58	+34	16
Kenny Corupe 	Lørenskog 	45	22	33	55	+30	70
Mats Frøshaug 	Lørenskog 	43	26	27	53	+26	24
R. J. Anderson 	Lillehammer 	45	19	34	53	+28	62
Lars Erik Spets 	Lørenskog 	43	17	36	53	+27	48
Henrik Malmström 	Sparta Warriors 	45	19	33	52	+9 	50
Patrick Coulombe 	Vålerenga 	44	17	35	52	+26	58
Blake Evans 	Vålerenga 	45	15	37	52	+29	72
Tim Kunes 	Stavanger Oilers	45	11	41	52	+35	34
===Leading goaltenders===
These were the top five goaltenders based on goals against average.
Player 	Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Jürgen Penker	Lørenskog 	22	1299:47	17	5 	43 	3	.924	1.98
Ryan Nie 	Lillehammer 	45	2691:04	27	18	100	6	.917	2.23
Ruben Smith 	Stavanger Oilers	34	1922:40	28	6 	72 	3	.918	2.25
Phil Osaer 	Sparta Warriors 	44	2584:24	26	18	101	5	.916	2.34
Simon Nordh 	Rosenborg 	34	1973:34	15	18	90 	6	.916	2.74
===Attendance===
Team 	Arena 	Capacity	Total	Games	Average	% of Capacity
Frisk Tigers 	Askerhallen 	 	 	 	 	
Storhamar Dragons	Hamar OL-Amfi 	 	 	 	 	
Vålerenga 	Jordal Amfi 	 	 	 	 	
Lillehammer 	Kristins Hall 	 	 	 	 	
Rosenborg 	Leangen Ishall 	 	 	 	 	
Lørenskog 	Lørenskog Ishall	 	 	 	 	
Manglerud Star 	Manglerudhallen 	 	 	 	 	
Stavanger Oilers 	Siddishallen 	 	 	 	 	
Sparta Warriors 	Sparta Amfi 	 	 	 	 	
Stjernen 	Stjernehallen 	 	 	 	 	
Total	Games	Average
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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 best-of-seven 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===
Updated to games played on 24 March 2012Source: pointstreak.com
==Qualification tournament==
After the regular season, the two lowest ranked teams must compete against the two highest ranked teams from the 1. divisjon for the right to play in the 2012–13 GET-ligaen. This tournament is organized according to a double round robin format: each club plays the others twice, home and away, for a total of six games. The points system and ranking method used are the same as in the GET-ligaen. At the end of the tournament, the winner and runner-up qualify for the next season.
===Final standings===
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Tønsberg Vikings	6	3	2	1	0	32	17	14	
Frisk Asker 	6	2	1	3	0	24	18	11	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Manglerud Star 	6	2	2	0	2	26	14	10	
Comet 	6	0	0	1	5	13	46	1 	
Source: hockey.no
==Team Photos==
11-12StoDra.jpg|Storhamar Dragons
11-12LorenIK.jpg|Lørenskog IK
==References==
==External links==
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