Analysis: Tampa Bay's NHL titles likely the hardest of all
Maroon rattled off the circumstances: The pandemic stopping the season in March 2020 for 4 1/2 months; teams spending 60-plus days in a quarantined bubble for the playoffs; the league then turning around and playing a condensed, 56-game regular season before going through four more grueling playoff rounds. Tampa Bay played the entire regular season without injured star Nikita Kucherov, too, though he returned for the postseason.