from Kevin Paul Dupont of the Boston Globe,

All done in Bubbledom.

The Bruins ended their longest season Monday night in Toronto with a 3-2 double OT loss to Tampa Bay, the Lightning clinching their Round 2 playoff series, 4 games to 1.

The end came at 14:10 of the second overtime when Victor Hedman snapped home a short-range wrister with Patrick Maroon setting a screen in front of Jaro Halak.

Thus ended Boston’s hopes of winning the franchise’s seventh Stanley Cup. It ended a season that began Oct. 3, 2019 in Dallas and ended Aug. 31, some 11 months later, amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that interrupted the season for some five months.

“We prepared. We worked. And these things have to work out perfect to win,” said veteran winger Brad Maerchand. “Everything has to go your way — the calls, the bounces. Everyrone needs to play their best all the way through and it’s tough to look back and say ’What if …’ ”

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