Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the regular season was reduced to 56 games and began on January 13, 2021. Due to cross-border travel restrictions imposed by Canada, the league temporarily realigned for this season, putting all seven Canadian teams into one division.
1st Round
2nd Round
Semi Finals
Stanley Cup
CAR 4
NSH 2
FLA 2
TB 4
PIT 2
NYI 4
WAS 1
BOS 4
TOR 3
MTL 4
EDM 0
WPG 4
COL 4
STL 0
LV 4
MIN 3
CAR 1
TB 4
BOS 2
NYI 4
WPG 0
MTL 4
COL 2
LV 4
TB 4
NYI 3
LV 2
MTL 4
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TB 4
MTL 1
Champ
TB
2020-21 NHL Champion Tampa Bay Lightning
Due to cross-border travel restrictions imposed by the Government of Canada over the COVID-19 pandemic, the league temporarily realigned this season into four divisions with no conferences. Consequently, the first two rounds of the playoffs featured intra-divisional matchups, with the higher-seeded teams receiving home-ice advantage in those rounds. In the Stanley Cup Semifinals, the four remaining teams (one from each division) were re-seeded based on their regular season records.

First Round

Best of 7-game series
Date    OpponentResultScoreSeries
5/16vs Tampa Bay (3)L  4-5 0-1
5/18vs Tampa Bay (3)L  1-3 0-2
5/20at Tampa Bay (3)W  6-5
OT
1-2
5/22at Tampa Bay (3)L  2-6 1-3
5/24vs Tampa Bay (3)W  4-1 2-3
5/26at Tampa Bay (3)L  0-4 2-4