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

2017–18 Final Standings

2017–18 Game Results

Buffalo finished 31st in the league, 8th in the Atlantic.

Eastern

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	z-Tampa Bay Lightning	82	54	23	5	113	.689	296	236	6	2	+60	99	OT1
2	x-Boston Bruins	82	50	20	12	112	.683	270	214	3	3	+56	101	L1
3	y-Washington Capitals	82	49	26	7	105	.640	259	239	3	1	+20	88	W1
4	x-Toronto Maple Leafs	82	49	26	7	105	.640	277	232	7	2	+45	95	W1
5	x-Pittsburgh Penguins	82	47	29	6	100	.610	272	250	2	2	+22	89	W2
6	x-Philadelphia Flyers	82	42	26	14	98	.598	251	243	2	7	+8	86	W2
7	x-Columbus Blue Jackets	82	45	30	7	97	.591	242	230	6	4	+12	86	L1
8	x-New Jersey Devils	82	44	29	9	97	.591	248	244	5	4	+4	83	L1
9	Florida Panthers	82	44	30	8	96	.585	248	246	3	3	+2	83	W5
10	Carolina Hurricanes	82	36	35	11	83	.506	228	256	3	3	-28	72	W1
11	New York Islanders	82	35	37	10	80	.488	264	296	3	3	-32	73	W3
12	New York Rangers	82	34	39	9	77	.470	231	268	3	5	-37	70	L3
13	Detroit Red Wings	82	30	39	13	73	.445	217	255	5	1	-38	67	OT1
14	Montréal Canadiens	82	29	40	13	71	.433	209	264	2	6	-55	64	L1
15	Ottawa Senators	82	28	43	11	67	.409	221	291	2	7	-70	61	L2
16	Buffalo Sabres	82	25	45	12	62	.378	199	280	1	2	-81	55	L4

Western

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	p-Nashville Predators	82	53	18	11	117	.713	267	211	6	7	+56	102	W2
2	x-Winnipeg Jets	82	52	20	10	114	.695	277	218	4	2	+59	101	W5
3	y-Vegas Golden Knights	82	51	24	7	109	.665	272	228	4	3	+44	96	L2
4	x-Minnesota Wild	82	45	26	11	101	.616	253	232	3	3	+21	89	W1
5	x-Anaheim Ducks	82	44	25	13	101	.616	235	216	4	7	+19	90	W5
6	x-San Jose Sharks	82	45	27	10	100	.610	252	229	5	3	+23	89	L1
7	x-Los Angeles Kings	82	45	29	8	98	.598	239	203	2	1	+36	95	L1
8	x-Colorado Avalanche	82	43	30	9	95	.579	257	237	2	1	+20	88	W1
9	St. Louis Blues	82	44	32	6	94	.573	226	222	3	0	+4	82	L1
10	Dallas Stars	82	42	32	8	92	.561	235	225	4	3	+10	85	W1
11	Calgary Flames	82	37	35	10	84	.512	218	248	2	5	-30	72	W1
12	Edmonton Oilers	82	36	40	6	78	.476	234	263	5	1	-29	71	W2
13	Chicago Blackhawks	82	33	39	10	76	.463	229	256	1	2	-27	73	L2
14	Vancouver Canucks	82	31	40	11	73	.445	218	264	0	5	-46	68	OT1
15	Arizona Coyotes	82	29	41	12	70	.427	208	256	2	5	-48	66	L1

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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