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

2018–19 Final Standings

2018–19 Game Results

Buffalo finished 27th in the league, 6th in the Atlantic.

Eastern

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	p-Tampa Bay Lightning	82	62	16	4	128	.780	325	222	6	1	+103	111	W2
2	x-Boston Bruins	82	49	24	9	107	.652	259	215	2	3	+44	98	L1
3	y-Washington Capitals	82	48	26	8	104	.634	278	249	4	1	+29	90	L1
4	x-New York Islanders	82	48	27	7	103	.628	228	196	5	5	+32	95	W2
5	x-Toronto Maple Leafs	82	46	28	8	100	.610	286	251	0	2	+35	93	OT1
6	x-Pittsburgh Penguins	82	44	26	12	100	.610	273	241	2	3	+32	93	OT1
7	x-Carolina Hurricanes	82	46	29	7	99	.604	245	223	2	2	+22	90	W3
8	x-Columbus Blue Jackets	82	47	31	4	98	.598	258	232	2	1	+26	90	W2
9	Montréal Canadiens	82	44	30	8	96	.585	249	236	3	0	+13	85	W1
10	Florida Panthers	82	36	32	14	86	.524	267	280	3	7	-13	79	OT2
11	Philadelphia Flyers	82	37	37	8	82	.500	244	281	3	1	-37	70	L5
12	New York Rangers	82	32	36	14	78	.476	227	272	6	5	-45	67	W1
13	Buffalo Sabres	82	33	39	10	76	.463	226	271	5	3	-45	66	W2
14	Detroit Red Wings	82	32	40	10	74	.451	227	277	3	5	-50	66	L2
15	New Jersey Devils	82	31	41	10	72	.439	222	275	3	4	-53	65	W1
16	Ottawa Senators	82	29	47	6	64	.390	242	302	0	1	-60	64	L2

Western

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	z-Calgary Flames	82	50	25	7	107	.652	289	227	0	4	+62	103	L2
2	x-San Jose Sharks	82	46	27	9	101	.616	289	261	0	3	+28	91	W2
3	y-Nashville Predators	82	47	29	6	100	.610	240	214	4	2	+26	91	W3
4	x-Winnipeg Jets	82	47	30	5	99	.604	272	244	2	1	+28	91	W1
5	x-St. Louis Blues	82	45	28	9	99	.604	247	223	3	3	+24	90	W2
6	x-Dallas Stars	82	43	32	7	93	.567	210	202	1	2	+8	86	W1
7	x-Vegas Golden Knights	82	43	32	7	93	.567	249	230	3	2	+19	88	L2
8	x-Colorado Avalanche	82	38	30	14	90	.549	260	246	2	2	+14	87	L1
9	Arizona Coyotes	82	39	35	8	86	.524	213	223	4	3	-10	78	L1
10	Chicago Blackhawks	82	36	34	12	84	.512	270	292	3	1	-22	75	L1
11	Minnesota Wild	82	37	36	9	83	.506	211	237	1	4	-26	74	L2
12	Vancouver Canucks	82	35	36	11	81	.494	225	254	6	6	-29	72	OT1
13	Anaheim Ducks	82	35	37	10	80	.488	199	251	3	3	-52	63	W3
14	Edmonton Oilers	82	35	38	9	79	.482	232	274	3	3	-42	68	W1
15	Los Angeles Kings	82	31	42	9	71	.433	202	263	3	4	-61	61	W1

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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