2011–12 North Sea Cup season

The 2011-2012 North Sea Cup was the second and final season of the North Sea Cup, the highest level of ice hockey in the Netherlands and Belgium, before the league reverted to its traditional name, the Eredivisie, and its traditional format.
==Teams==
Teams participating in the league changed before and during the season. Prior to the start of the season, Nijmegen Devils announced a one-year hiatus from the North Sea Cup for 2011-2012. The Belgian team Leuven Chiefs moved from the Belgian National League up to the North Sea Cup for 2011-2012. An expansion team known as the "Amsterdam Capitals" joined the league, with many of the same people as the defunct Amstel Tijgers of the Dutch Eredivisie. White Caps Turnhout dropped out of the league midway through the season Ijshockey.com (Jan. 13, 2011) after it lost most of its players to injury and defections; games played against Turnhout will not be counted in the season standings.
At the end of the season, the Leuven Chiefs announced that they, too, were leaving the North Sea Cup tournament. The North Sea Cup was therefore disbanded and the last remaining Belgian team, HYC Herentals, was admitted as a full member of the "Eredivisie" Dutch league for the 2012-2013 season.
==Format==
The format of the North Sea Cup was changed for the 2011-2012 season. The number of regular season games was reduced from 28 to 16, to allow for longer Belgian Cup and Dutch Cup tournaments which are played before the North Sea Cup. With the loss of Turnhout from the league, the season consisted of 14 games, as each of the eight teams played each other twice. HYS The Hague edged out Geleen Eaters on goal differential to win the North Sea Cup tournament, as both teams attained 36 points.
The standings of the Dutch teams in the North Sea Cup regular season determined the playoff pools for the quarter-final round of the Dutch National Championship playoffs. Pool A consisted of the Dutch team ranked first (The Hague), third (Tilburg) and fifth (Friesland), while Pool B consisted of the Dutch teams ranked second (Geleen), fourth (Eindhoven) and sixth (Amsterdam).
The Belgian national championships was determined among the two Belgian teams competing in the North Sea Cup, namely Herentals and Leuven, plus the team that dropped out, Turnhout. Herentals won all of the games of the round-robin and the finals against Leuven, winning the National Championship.
==Regular season==
;Scores
{| class="wikitable"	Date 	Home 	Score 	Periods 	Away
02/12	Amsterdam Capitals 	8-6 	3-2, 1-3, 4-1	Tilburg Trappers 	
02/12	HYS The Hague 	11-4 	4-0, 2-2, 5-2	Friesland Flyers 	
03/12	Eindhoven Kemphanen	12-1 	3-1, 3-0, 6-0	Amsterdam Capitals 	
03/12	HYC Herentals 	7-6 nv	2-2, 3-2, 1-2	IHC Leuven 	
04/12	IHC Leuven 	0-10 	0-3, 0-2, 0-5	HYS The Hague 	
04/12	Tilburg Trappers 	7-0 	0-0, 3-0, 4-0	HYC Herentals 	
09/12	Friesland Flyers 	8-2 	1-0, 3-2, 0-0	IHC Leuven 	
09/12	HYS The Hague 	6-5 	0-2, 2-2, 4-1	HYC Herentals 	
09/12	Tilburg Trappers 	2-0 	0-0, 1-0, 1-0	Eindhoven Kemphanen	
10/12	Eindhoven Kemphanen	1-4 	1-1, 0-3, 0-0	Eaters Geleen 	
10/12	IHC Leuven 	2-4 	0-2, 1-1, 1-1	Tilburg Trappers 	
11/12	Eaters Geleen 	5-3 	2-2, 2-1, 1-0	HYS The Hague 	
16/12	Friesland Flyers 	8-3 	2-2, 3-1, 3-0	HYC Herentals 	
16/12	HYS The Hague 	6-5 	4-2, 1-2, 1-1	Tilburg Trappers 	
17/12	Eindhoven Kemphanen	9-3 	3-0, 3-1, 3-2	Friesland Flyers 	
18/12	Eaters Geleen 	5-2 	1-1, 2-0, 2-1	IHC Leuven 	
18/12	HYC Herentals 	6-2 	2-0, 2-1, 2-1	Eindhoven Kemphanen	
21/12	Eindhoven Kemphanen	5-1 	1-1, 3-0, 1-0	IHC Leuven 	
21/12	Friesland Flyers 	7-4 	3-1, 3-1, 1-2	Amsterdam Capitals 	
23/12	Amsterdam Capitals 	2-10 	2-3, 0-3, 0-4	Eindhoven Kemphanen	
23/12	Friesland Flyers 	0-2 	0-0, 0-0, 0-2	Eaters Geleen 	
27/12	Eaters Geleen 	5-1 	2-0, 3-1, 0-0	Tilburg Trappers 	
30/12	HYC Herentals 	3-6 	0-4, 1-1, 2-1	Eaters Geleen 	
30/12	HYS The Hague 	6-4 	1-0, 2-1, 3-3	Eindhoven Kemphanen	
30/12	Tilburg Trappers 	6-4 	2-0, 3-1, 1-3	Friesland Flyers 	
03/01	HYC Herentals 	5-1 	2-0, 2-1, 1-0	Amsterdam Capitals 	
04/01	Amsterdam Capitals 	3-6 	0-3, 2-2, 1-1	Eaters Geleen 	
04/01	Friesland Flyers 	0-3 	0-1, 0-0, 0-2	HYS The Hague 	
;White Caps Turnhout results (annulled)
{| class="wikitable"	Date 	Home	Score 	Periods 	Away
03/12	Eaters Geleen 	5-2 	1-1, 1-1, 3-0	White Caps Turnhout	
04/12	White Caps Turnhout	1-6 	0-3, 0-2, 1-1	Eindhoven Kemphanen	
09/12	Amsterdam Capitals 	1-6 	0-2, 0-2, 1-2	White Caps Turnhout	
11/12	White Caps Turnhout	2-7 	1-2, 0-3, 1-2	Friesland Flyers 	
18/12	White Caps Turnhout	2-8 	0-2, 1-4, 1-2	HYS The Hague 	
21/12	White Caps Turnhout	4-7 	0-2, 1-2, 3-3	HYC Herentals 	
23/12	Tilburg Trappers 	5-3 	1-1, 2-1, 2-1	White Caps Turnhout	
27/12	IHC Leuven 	2-5 	0-0, 1-0, 1-5	White Caps Turnhout	
07/01	White Caps Turnhout	2-6 	0-4, 2-1, 0-1	Eaters Geleen 	
08/01	Eindhoven Kemphanen	14-0	4-0, 4-0, 6-0	White Caps Turnhout	
Dutch Championship Semi-Finals
* Geleen beats Tilburg 3 wins to none (3:1, 5:4, 6:3)
* The Hague beats Eindhoven 3 wins to none (5:2, 9:3, 5:4 OT)
Dutch Championship Finals
* Geleen beats The Hague 3 wins to 2 (2:3 OT, 3:1, 2:3, 5:2, 7:1)
Club 	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	P
HYC Herentals 	8 	8	0 	0 	0	61	12	27
Leuven Chiefs 	7 	3	1 	0 	4	26	38	11
Turnhout White Caps	7 	0	0 	1 	7	11	48	1
Belgian Championship Finals
* HYC Herentals beats Leuven 3 wins to none
==References==
==External links==
* Results at official website
Category:2011–12 ice hockey leagues