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1. #NY ISLANDERS VS TB LIGHTNING PROFESSIONAL#
2. #NY ISLANDERS VS TB LIGHTNING SERIES#

For the second year in a row and third time overall since 1996, all California-based teams, the Anaheim Ducks, Los Angeles Kings, and San Jose Sharks, missed the playoffs.

#NY ISLANDERS VS TB LIGHTNING PROFESSIONAL#

The Pittsburgh Penguins increased their postseason appearance streak to 15 seasons, the longest active streak in the four major North American professional sports.

The Colorado Avalanche made the playoffs as the Presidents' Trophy winners with the most points (i.e. Prior to the announcement, there were some ideas of the Canadian team playing in a neutral NHL city in the US after the Second Round. In order to complete the playoffs in Canada, the League applied for a cross-border travel exemption with the Public Health Agency of Canada. Īlthough it was initially unknown whether the Canadian teams that qualified for the playoffs would be able to play in their home arenas after the Second Round, on June 6, it was announced that those teams would be allowed to play in their home arenas for the remainder of the playoffs. After initially stating that the Campbell and Wales trophies would not be awarded this season, the league decided in June 2021 that the Montreal Canadiens and Vegas Golden Knights would play for the Campbell Bowl and the New York Islanders and Tampa Bay Lightning would play for the Wales Trophy. Both semifinal winners advanced to the Stanley Cup Finals.

In the Stanley Cup Semifinals, the four remaining teams (one from each division) were reseeded based on their regular season records. Consequently, the first two rounds of the playoffs featured intra-divisional matchups, with the higher seeded teams receiving home-ice advantage in those rounds. Due to cross-border travel restrictions imposed by the Government of Canada, the league temporarily realigned this season into four divisions with no conferences.

#NY ISLANDERS VS TB LIGHTNING SERIES#

The league returned to the traditional 16-team playoff format with all series being best-of-seven, after using a 24-team format in 2020 due to the regular season being cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic. The playoffs were originally scheduled to begin a few days after the regular season concluded, but they began four days prior to the end of the regular season after the Vancouver Canucks had eleven games postponed because of a COVID-19 outbreak. The playoffs began on May 15, 2021, and concluded on July 7, 2021, with the Tampa Bay Lightning winning their second consecutive and third overall Stanley Cup in franchise history, defeating the Montreal Canadiens four games to one in the Stanley Cup Finals. The 2021 Stanley Cup playoffs was the playoff tournament of the National Hockey League (NHL) for the 2020–21 season.