2011–12 National League B season

2011–12 National League B season
League	National League B
Sport	Ice hockey
Duration	September 9, 2011 - February 7, 2012
Number of games	45
Number of teams	10
Regular Season
Season Champions	Lausanne HC
Top scorer	Jeff Campbell (SC Langenthal)
Playoffs
Semi-Final champions	Lausanne HC
Semi-Final runners-up	EHC Visp
Semi-Final champions	SC Langenthal
Semi-Final runners-up	Chx-de-Fds
Swiss champion NLB
Champions	SC Langenthal
Runners-up	Lausanne HC
National League B seasons
← 2010–11 2012–13 →

The 2011–12 National League B season was played from September 9, 2011, to February 7, 2012. The regular season was won by Lausanne HC with 105 points, 15 points ahead of the second place team, SC Langenthal. The playoffs were played from February 12 to March 27, 2012, with SC Langenthal defeating Lausanee HC to become Swiss Champions of NLB. Langenthal would later play HC Ambrì-Piotta in the league qualification series. Since Ambrì-Piotta would defeat Langenthal in the series, there was no changes to the NLA or NLB teams for the 2012–2013 seasons.

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Regular season

The National League B regular season consists of 45 games, 2 double rounds playing each team twice, and a single round playing each team once.

Standings

	Team	GP	W	L	OTW	OTL	GF	GA	Pts
1.	Lausanne HC	45	31	9	4	1	186	115	102
2.	SC Langenthal	45	27	13	1	4	157	110	87
3.	HC La Chaux-de-Fonds	45	24	14	3	4	155	127	82
4.	EHC Visp	45	22	17	4	2	170	150	76
5.	EHC Basel Sharks	45	17	19	3	6	132	142	63
6.	GCK Lions	45	19	22	2	2	122	134	63
7.	EHC Olten	45	16	20	6	3	152	146	63
8.	HC Ajoie	45	16	24	3	2	119	154	56
9.	HC Thurgau	45	11	27	3	4	118	170	43
10.	HC Sierre-Anniviers	45	9	27	4	5	114	177	40

Attendance

Team	Games	Total Attendance	Average
Lausanne HC	23	110,354	4,798
EHC Visp	22	68,860	3,130
EHC Olten	23	69,506	3,022
Chx-de-Fds	23	57,201	2,487
SC Langenthal	23	43,539	1,893
HC Sierre	22	37,092	1,686
HC Ajoie	22	35,992	1,636
EHC Basel Sharks	23	29,003	1,261
HC Thurgau	22	20,614	937
GCK Lions	22	5,830	265
LEAGUE TOTAL	225	477,991	2,124

League Leaders

Scoring

Name	Team	GP	G	A	P
Jeff Campbell	SC Langenthal	45	30	38	6830
Brent Kelly	SC Langenthal	45	27	41	6827
Marco Charpentier	Chx-de-Fds	45	27	33	60
Oliver Setzinger	Lausanne HC	45	26	32	58
Stefan Tschannen	SC Langenthal	42	23	32	55
Luca Triulzi	EHC Visp	44	20	31	51
Alain Brunold	EHC Visp	45	20	30	50
Dominic Forget	EHC Visp	44	20	30	50
Tomas Dolana	EHC Visp	45	18	32	50
Derek Cormier	HC Sierre	41	13	37	40

Playoffs

During the first round of the playoffs, National League regulations state that the top seeded team my play any team of its choice from the bottom 4 seeds. The next seeded team may then choose their opponent from the remaining 3 of the bottom 4 seeds and so on. The same rule applies for the Semi-Finals. During the playoffs, teams alternate venues game to game, with the highest seed playing home first.

Tournament Bracket

Quarter-Finals			Semi-Finals			Finals

1	Lausanne HC	4

6	GCK Lions	1
			1	Lausanne HC	4

			4	EHC Visp	0
2	SC Langenthal	4

5	EHC Basel Sharks	0
						5	Lausanne HC	2
(Pairings are reseeded after the first round)
						7	Langenthal	4
3	Chx-de-Fds	4

8	HC Ajoie	3
			2	Langenthal	4

			3	Chx-de-Fds	3
4	EHC Visp	4

5	EHC Olten	1

League Qualification

The champions of the National League B has the opportunity to play the losing team of a Play-Out tournament from the National League A to take their spot in the league. SC Langenthal took on HC Ambrì-Piotta in a 7-game series, losing 4-1 and remaining in the National League B.

HC Ambrì-Piotta vs. SC Langenthal

April 3	HC Ambrì-Piotta		3-1	SC Langenthal	Stadion Valascia	Recap
Paolo Duca - 07:22 Inti Pestoni - 22:22 Julian Walker - 59:55		Scoring stats		46:22 - Marc Leuenberger
Thomas Bäumle		Goalie stats		Marc Eichmann (Save % - 87.5)

April 5	SC Langenthal		0-3	HC Ambrì-Piotta	Kunsteisbahn Schoren	Recap
No Scoring		Scoring stats		10:39 - Elias Bianchi 25:48 - Vitaly Lakhmatov 59:14 - Vitaly Lakhmatov
Marc Eichmann		Goalie stats		Thomas Bäumle (Save % - 100.00)

April 7	HC Ambrì-Piotta		1-3	SC Langenthal	Stadion Valascia	Recap
Roman Schlagenhauf - 31:02		Scoring stats		34:42 - Marco Gruber 57:56 - Tim Weber 59:52 - Stefan Tschannen
Thomas Bäumle		Goalie stats		Marc Eichmann (Save % - 96.67)

April 9	SC Langenthal		1-3	HC Ambrì-Piotta	Kunsteisbahn Schoren	Recap
Inti Pestoni - 19:44 Alain Demuth - 45:08 Elias Bianchi - 57:38		Scoring stats		14:07 - Tim Weber
Marc Eichmann		Goalie stats		Thomas Bäumle

April 12	HC Ambrì-Piotta		3-0	SC Langenthal	Stadion Valascia	Recap
Gregory Hofmann - 27:21 Marco Pedretti - 41:30 Inti Pestoni - 48:38		Scoring stats		No Scoring
Thomas Bäumle		Goalie stats		Marc Eichmann (Save % - 84.21)

HC Ambrì-Piotta win series 4-1

External links

(in German) National League B, official website
(in French) National League B, official website

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