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

1984–85 Final Standings

1984–85 Game Results

Buffalo finished 8th in the league, 3rd in the Adams.

Prince of Wales

	Team	GP	W	L	T	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	y-Philadelphia Flyers	80	53	20	7	113	.706	348	241	–	–	+107	108	W5
2	x-Washington Capitals	80	46	25	9	101	.631	322	240	–	–	+82	103	W2
3	y-Montréal Canadiens	80	41	27	12	94	.588	309	262	–	–	+47	93	W1
4	x-Quebec Nordiques	80	41	30	9	91	.569	323	275	–	–	+48	93	W1
5	x-Buffalo Sabres	80	38	28	14	90	.563	290	237	–	–	+53	96	L1
6	x-New York Islanders	80	40	34	6	86	.537	345	312	–	–	+33	88	T1
7	x-Boston Bruins	80	36	34	10	82	.512	303	287	–	–	+16	84	W1
8	Hartford Whalers	80	30	41	9	69	.431	268	318	–	–	-50	66	L1
9	x-New York Rangers	80	26	44	10	62	.388	295	345	–	–	-50	68	L1
10	New Jersey Devils	80	22	48	10	54	.338	264	346	–	–	-82	59	L1
11	Pittsburgh Penguins	80	24	51	5	53	.331	276	385	–	–	-109	54	L6

Clarence Campbell

	Team	GP	W	L	T	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	z-Edmonton Oilers	80	49	20	11	109	.681	401	298	–	–	+103	103	L1
2	x-Winnipeg Jets (1979)	80	43	27	10	96	.600	358	332	–	–	+26	86	T1
3	x-Calgary Flames	80	41	27	12	94	.588	363	302	–	–	+61	95	T2
4	y-St. Louis Blues	80	37	31	12	86	.537	299	288	–	–	+11	83	W2
5	x-Chicago Blackhawks	80	38	35	7	83	.519	309	299	–	–	+10	83	W1
6	x-Los Angeles Kings	80	34	32	14	82	.512	339	326	–	–	+13	83	T1
7	x-Detroit Red Wings	80	27	41	12	66	.412	313	357	–	–	-44	70	L1
8	x-Minnesota North Stars	80	25	43	12	62	.388	268	321	–	–	-53	66	L1
9	Vancouver Canucks	80	25	46	9	59	.369	284	401	–	–	-117	53	T1
10	Toronto Maple Leafs	80	20	52	8	48	.300	253	358	–	–	-105	53	L5

x - clinched playoff spot, y - clinched division, z - clinched conference, p - clinched Presidents' Trophy.

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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