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 Wild Card

2015–16 Final Standings

2015–16 Game Results

Buffalo finished 23rd in the league, 7th in the Atlantic.

Eastern

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	p-Washington Capitals	82	56	18	8	120	.732	252	193	4	2	+59	103	L1
2	x-Pittsburgh Penguins	82	48	26	8	104	.634	245	203	4	4	+42	98	L1
3	y-Florida Panthers	82	47	26	9	103	.628	239	203	7	3	+36	94	W1
4	x-New York Rangers	82	46	27	9	101	.616	236	217	3	2	+19	89	W1
5	x-New York Islanders	82	45	27	10	100	.610	232	216	5	5	+16	88	L1
6	x-Tampa Bay Lightning	82	46	31	5	97	.591	227	201	3	3	+26	92	L1
7	x-Philadelphia Flyers	82	41	27	14	96	.585	214	218	3	8	-4	82	W2
8	x-Detroit Red Wings	82	41	30	11	93	.567	211	224	2	5	-13	78	L2
9	Boston Bruins	82	42	31	9	93	.567	240	230	4	2	+10	85	L1
10	Carolina Hurricanes	82	35	31	16	86	.524	198	226	2	5	-28	72	L2
11	Ottawa Senators	82	38	35	9	85	.518	236	247	6	6	-11	78	W2
12	New Jersey Devils	82	38	36	8	84	.512	184	208	2	6	-24	73	W1
13	Montréal Canadiens	82	38	38	6	82	.500	221	236	5	3	-15	76	W2
14	Buffalo Sabres	82	35	36	11	81	.494	201	222	2	7	-21	76	W1
15	Columbus Blue Jackets	82	34	40	8	76	.463	219	252	6	4	-33	70	W3
16	Toronto Maple Leafs	82	29	42	11	69	.421	198	246	6	6	-48	64	L1

Western

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	z-Dallas Stars	82	50	23	9	109	.665	267	230	2	2	+37	94	W2
2	x-St. Louis Blues	82	49	24	9	107	.652	224	201	5	4	+23	91	L1
3	x-Chicago Blackhawks	82	47	26	9	103	.628	235	209	1	2	+26	92	OT2
4	y-Anaheim Ducks	82	46	25	11	103	.628	218	192	3	4	+26	93	W2
5	x-Los Angeles Kings	82	48	28	6	102	.622	225	195	2	3	+30	94	OT1
6	x-San Jose Sharks	82	46	30	6	98	.598	241	210	4	3	+31	93	W1
7	x-Nashville Predators	82	41	27	14	96	.585	228	215	4	2	+13	86	L1
8	x-Minnesota Wild	82	38	33	11	87	.530	216	206	3	2	+10	86	L5
9	Colorado Avalanche	82	39	39	4	82	.500	216	240	4	0	-24	72	L6
10	Arizona Coyotes	82	35	39	8	78	.476	209	245	1	1	-36	69	L1
11	Winnipeg Jets	82	35	39	8	78	.476	215	239	3	3	-24	73	W4
12	Calgary Flames	82	35	40	7	77	.470	231	260	2	3	-29	73	W2
13	Vancouver Canucks	82	31	38	13	75	.457	191	243	5	4	-52	62	W1
14	Edmonton Oilers	82	31	43	8	70	.427	203	245	4	3	-42	66	OT1

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

Standings goals include the shootout deciding goal, one per shootout result, as every league standings page does. The rest of this site leaves it out, so the season pages read lower by each team's shootout record: GF minus SOW and GA minus SOL are the goals for and against on the Scores and Team Stats pages. DIFF follows the goals beside it, so it reads higher here than everywhere else on the site by a team's shootout wins less its shootout losses.

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, from goals excluding the shootout deciding goal (GF minus SOW, GA minus SOL), the same goals the rest of the site counts. 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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