Standings by Year

As of:

Final NHL standings as of the last day of the regular season, for any year on record. View by Division, Conference, or League, and track where Buffalo (and every other team) stood across a season with the trend chart below.

Division Conference League

1974–75 Final Standings

1974–75 Game Results

Buffalo finished 2nd in the league, 1st in the Adams.

Prince of Wales

	Team	GP	W	L	T	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	Buffalo Sabres	80	49	16	15	113	.706	354	240	–	–	+114	110	W3
2	Montréal Canadiens	80	47	14	19	113	.706	374	225	–	–	+149	117	W3
3	Los Angeles Kings	80	42	17	21	105	.656	269	185	–	–	+84	109	T1
4	Boston Bruins	80	40	26	14	94	.588	345	245	–	–	+100	106	T1
5	Pittsburgh Penguins	80	37	28	15	89	.556	326	289	–	–	+37	90	L1
6	Toronto Maple Leafs	80	31	33	16	78	.487	280	309	–	–	-29	72	T1
7	Detroit Red Wings	80	23	45	12	58	.362	259	335	–	–	-76	60	L2
8	California Golden Seals	80	19	48	13	51	.319	212	316	–	–	-104	50	T1
9	Washington Capitals	80	8	67	5	21	.131	181	446	–	–	-265	23	W1

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	Team	GP	W	L	T	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	Philadelphia Flyers	80	51	18	11	113	.706	293	181	–	–	+112	116	W2
2	New York Rangers	80	37	29	14	88	.550	319	276	–	–	+43	92	L1
3	New York Islanders	80	33	25	22	88	.550	264	221	–	–	+43	94	W1
4	Vancouver Canucks	80	38	32	10	86	.537	271	254	–	–	+17	85	W3
5	St. Louis Blues	80	35	31	14	84	.525	269	267	–	–	+2	81	W2
6	Atlanta Flames	80	34	31	15	83	.519	243	233	–	–	+10	83	L2
7	Chicago Blackhawks	80	37	35	8	82	.512	268	241	–	–	+27	88	W1
8	Minnesota North Stars	80	23	50	7	53	.331	221	341	–	–	-120	47	L5
9	Kansas City Scouts	80	15	54	11	41	.256	184	328	–	–	-144	38	L2

xPTS is the points a team’s goals for and against project: the Pythagorean win estimate GF² / (GF² + GA²), scaled to points as win% × 2 × games played. It follows the current pace on any “as of” date. +/-xPTS is real points minus xPTS, after removing each team’s overtime-loss points. That step matters because xPTS splits a flat 2 points per game, while an overtime game pays out 3, so without it almost every team since 1999–00 reads as lucky. What is left is the points a team banked above or below its goal margin: positive means winning more of the close and overtime games than goal difference alone predicts.

Standings Over the Course of the Season

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