2016–17 GET-ligaen season

2016–17 GET-ligaen season
League	GET-ligaen
Sport	Ice hockey
Duration	September 2016 – mid April 2017
Number of games	45
Number of teams	10
TV partner(s)	TV 2 Sport
Regular season
League champions	Stavanger Oilers
Playoffs
Norwegian champions	Stavanger Oilers
Norwegian runners-up	Frisk Asker
GET-ligaen seasons
← 2015–16 2017–18 →

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.

Frisk Asker

Lillehammer

Lørenskog

Kongsvinger

Sparta

Stavanger

Stjernen

Storhamar

Oslo:
Manglerud
Vålerenga

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GET-ligaen teams

Vålerenga Ishockey played their last home game at Jordal Amfi on January 7.^[1] 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.^[2]

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.^[3] The match ended with a 3-0 victory for Sparta in front of a record audience of 12.500.^[4]

Updated as of February 28, 2017.

x – clinched playoff spot; y – clinched regular season league title; r – play in relegation series

Source: scoreboard.com

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	GP	G	A	Pts	+/–	PIM
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

The top five goaltenders based on goals against average. Updated as of March 25, 2016.

Source: pointstreak.com

Source:pointstreak.com

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).

Updated as of April 11, 2017.

Source: hockey.no

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.

Updated as of March 23, 2017.

q – qualified for next years GET-league; r – will play in next years 1. division

Source: hockey.no

• Official website (in Norwegian)