League GET-ligaen Number of games 45 | Number of teams 10 | |
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Duration September 2016 – mid April 2017 | ||
The 2016–17 GET-ligaen will be the 78th season of Norway's premier ice hockey league, Ligaen (known as GET-ligaen for sponsorship reasons).
Contents
- Arenas
- Winter Classic
- Standings
- Scoring leaders
- Leading goaltenders
- Attendance
- Playoffs
- Qualification
- References
The regular season will begin play in September 2016. There were no team changes from the 2015–16 season.
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.
Winter Classic
An outdoor match featuring Stjernen and Sparta Warriors is scheduled for January 21, 2017. The match will be played on Fredrikstad stadion and will be the first major outdoor match in Norway in the 21st century.
Stavanger Oilers are planning an outdoor match in early 2017, although no date or opposing team has been decided.
Standings
Updated as of February 5, 2017.
x – clinched playoff spot; y – clinched regular season league title; r – play in relegation series
Source: scoreboard.com
Scoring leaders
List shows the ten best skaters based on the amount of points during the regular season. If two or more skaters are tied (i.e. same amount of points, goals and played games), all of the tied skaters are shown. Updated as of December 11, 2016.
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/– = Plus/Minus; PIM = Penalty Minutes
Source: [1]
Leading goaltenders
The top five goaltenders based on goals against average. Updated as of March 25, 2016.
Source: pointstreak.com
Attendance
Source:pointstreak.com
Playoffs
After the regular season, the top eight teams will qualify for the playoffs. In the first and second rounds, the highest remaining seed will choose 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 will play 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).
Qualification
After the regular season has ended, the two lowest ranked teams in the league and the two highest ranked teams in the 1. divisjon will compete for the right to play in the 2017–18 GET-ligaen. The tournament will be organized according to a double round robin format, where each club will play the others twice, home and away, for a total of six games. The points system and ranking method used, is the same as in the GET-ligaen.