2021 Stanley Cup Finals

rdf:langString 2021 Stanley Cup Finals

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rdf:langString *9 Tyler Johnson *20 Blake Coleman^ *21 Brayden Point *37 Yanni Gourde *71 Anthony Cirelli^ *79 Ross Colton *91 Steven Stamkos^

rdf:langString * 7 Mathieu Joseph *14 Pat Maroon *17 Alex Killorn *18 Ondrej Palat *19 Barclay Goodrow^ *86 Nikita Kucherov

rdf:langString *2 Luke Schenn *27 Ryan McDonagh *44 Jan Rutta *52 Cal Foote *58 David Savard *77 Victor Hedman *81 Erik Cernak *98 Mikhail Sergachev

rdf:langString *35 Curtis McElhinney *88 Andrei Vasilevskiy

rdf:langString ^ – played both wing and centre.

rdf:langString * Jeffrey Vinik , Penny Vinik , Steve Griggs , Julien BriseBois , * Allen Murray , Jamie Pushor , Stacy Roest , Mathieu Darche , * Jon Cooper , Jeff Halpern , Derek Lalonde , Rob Zettler , * Frantz Jean , Brian Garlock , Nigel Kirwan , Ryan Hamilton * Jean-Paul "J.P." Cote , Mark Lambert ,Tom Mulligan , * Michael Poirier , Ray Thill , Rob Kennedy , Jason Berger , * Christian Rivas , Brandon Rodgers , Ryan Belec , * Liz Sylvia Kokoharsky , Michael Peterson , Ben Morgan

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rdf:langString * – Denotes overtime period

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rdf:langString Tampa Bay

rdf:langString The 2021 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 2020–21 season and the culmination of the 2021 Stanley Cup playoffs. The series was between the Montreal Canadiens and the defending champion Tampa Bay Lightning. The Lightning won the best-of-seven series, four games to one, for their second consecutive and the third overall championship in franchise history. Tampa Bay had home-ice advantage in the series with the better regular season record. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic that both shortened and delayed the start of the regular season, the series began on June 28, 2021, and concluded on July 7, 2021, marking the first time that games in the Stanley Cup Finals were held in July. The cross-border travel restrictions under the pandemic also forced the league to temporarily realign this season into four divisions with no conferences, putting all seven Canadian teams into one of those divisions. Consequently, a divisional-based postseason format was held, featuring intra-divisional matchups in the first two rounds. The four divisional playoff champions were then re-seeded by regular season points in the Stanley Cup Semifinals, with the winners of the Semifinals advancing to the Stanley Cup Finals. Under a normal playoff format, this finals matchup would be impossible, as both the Lightning and Canadiens compete in the NHL's Eastern Conference. However, under the temporarily realigned divisions, some had mixed conferences, which enabled this scenario. This was the first Finals since 2009 to be played entirely in the Eastern Time Zone, the first since 2011 to feature a Canadian-based team, and the first since 2015 to end in a team winning the Stanley Cup at home. This Finals matchup broke the Stanley Cup Finals record for highest combined seed between teams, with twenty-six (Tampa Bay eighth, and Montreal eighteenth). This record was previously held by the 1991 Stanley Cup Finals, which had a combined seed of twenty-three.

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rdf:langString Félix Séguin and Patrick Lalime

rdf:langString Chris Cuthbert and Craig Simpson

rdf:langString E.J. Hradek and Kevin Weekes

rdf:langString Kenny Albert, Eddie Olczyk , Brian Boucher , and Pierre McGuire

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rdf:langString United States:

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