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
5/15at Washington (2)OTL 2-3
OT
0-0-1
5/17at Washington (2)W  4-3
OT
1-0-1
5/19vs Washington (2)W  3-2
2OT
2-0-1
5/21vs Washington (2)W  4-1 3-0-1
5/23at Washington (2)W  3-1 4-0-1

Second Round

Best of 7-game series
Date    OpponentResultScoreSeries
5/29vs NY Islanders (4)W  5-2 1-0
5/31vs NY Islanders (4)OTL 3-4
OT
1-0-1
6/3at NY Islanders (4)W  2-1
OT
2-0-1
6/5at NY Islanders (4)L  1-4 2-1-1
6/7vs NY Islanders (4)L  4-5 2-2-1
6/9at NY Islanders (4)L  2-6 2-3-1