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===
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
==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===
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==
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