2011–12 GET-ligaen season

The 2011–12 GET-ligaen was the seventy-third 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 2012. 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
===Attendance===
Team 	Arena 	Capacity	Total 	Games	Average	% of Capacity
Frisk Tigers 	Askerhallen 	2,400 	17,075	23 	742 	30.9%
Storhamar Dragons	Hamar OL-Amfi 	6,091 	49,988	23 	2,173 	35.7%
Vålerenga 	Jordal Amfi 	4,450 	36,071	22 	1,639 	36.8%
Lillehammer 	Kristins Hall 	3,194 	33,475	22 	1,521 	47.6%
Rosenborg 	Leangen Ishall 	3,000 	32,372	23 	1,407 	46.9%
Lørenskog 	Lørenskog Ishall	1,350 	21,252	22 	966 	71.6%
Manglerud Star 	Manglerudhallen 	2,000 	7,953 	23 	345 	17.3%
Stavanger Oilers 	Siddishallen 	2,664 	45,399	22 	2,063 	77.4%
Sparta Warriors 	Sparta Amfi 	3,450 	55,733	22 	2,533 	73.4%
Stjernen 	Stjernehallen 	2,473 	28,341	23 	1,232 	49.8%
Total 	Games	Average
327,659	225 	1,456
Source:pointstreak.com
==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===
Source: pointstreak.com
Norwegian Champions2012
Stavanger Oilers2nd 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 2012–13 GET-ligaen. Comet, Frisk Asker, Manglerud Star and the Tønsberg Vikings took part. The tournament was played from 8 March to 24 March 2012 and was organized according to a double round robin format: each club played the others twice, home and away, for a total of six games. The points system and ranking method used were the same as in the GET-ligaen.
Tønsberg won five out of six games, securing promotion in the penultimate round by defeating Frisk Asker 4–3 in a shootout. Frisk Asker eventually finished in second place by gaining a 1–0 win in regular time against Manglerud Star in the final round. This meant that the latter team was relegated to the 1. divisjon after three consecutive seasons in the top flight. Comet lost all its games and finished last.
===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
===Game Log===
2012–13 GET-ligaen Qualification Game Log	2012–13 GET-ligaen Qualification Game Log
==References==
2011-12
Norway