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

2009–10 Final Standings

2009–10 Game Results

Buffalo finished 11th in the league, 1st in the Northeast.

Eastern

Northeast

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	y-Buffalo Sabres	82	45	27	10	100	.610	235	207	4	6	+28	93	L1
2	x-Ottawa Senators	82	44	32	6	94	.573	225	238	5	5	-13	77	L1
3	x-Boston Bruins	82	39	30	13	91	.555	206	200	10	9	+6	84	W3
4	x-Montréal Canadiens	82	39	33	10	88	.537	217	223	7	5	-6	79	OT1
5	Toronto Maple Leafs	82	30	38	14	74	.451	214	267	4	4	-53	64	W1

Southeast

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	p-Washington Capitals	82	54	15	13	121	.738	318	233	5	6	+85	107	OT1
2	Atlanta Thrashers	82	35	34	13	83	.506	234	256	4	6	-22	75	W1
3	Carolina Hurricanes	82	35	37	10	80	.488	230	256	4	5	-26	73	L1
4	Tampa Bay Lightning	82	34	36	12	80	.488	217	260	4	7	-43	68	W3
5	Florida Panthers	82	32	37	13	77	.470	208	244	6	10	-36	70	L1

Atlantic

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	y-New Jersey Devils	82	48	27	7	103	.628	222	191	6	5	+31	94	W2
2	x-Pittsburgh Penguins	82	47	28	7	101	.616	257	237	8	2	+20	87	W1
3	x-Philadelphia Flyers	82	41	35	6	88	.537	236	225	4	3	+11	86	W1
4	New York Rangers	82	38	33	11	87	.530	222	218	3	4	+4	84	OT1
5	New York Islanders	82	34	37	11	79	.482	222	264	8	6	-42	67	OT1

Western

Pacific

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	z-San Jose Sharks	82	51	20	11	113	.689	264	215	7	6	+49	99	W3
2	x-Phoenix Coyotes	82	50	25	7	107	.652	225	202	14	6	+23	88	OT1
3	x-Los Angeles Kings	82	46	27	9	101	.616	241	219	10	8	+22	89	W1
4	Anaheim Ducks	82	39	32	11	89	.543	238	251	5	8	-13	79	W1
5	Dallas Stars	82	37	31	14	88	.537	237	254	7	10	-17	77	W2

Central

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	y-Chicago Blackhawks	82	52	22	8	112	.683	271	209	9	6	+62	102	OT1
2	x-Detroit Red Wings	82	44	24	14	102	.622	229	216	6	9	+13	88	W3
3	x-Nashville Predators	82	47	29	6	100	.610	225	225	8	4	0	81	W1
4	St. Louis Blues	82	40	32	10	90	.549	225	223	7	5	+2	82	OT1
5	Columbus Blue Jackets	82	32	35	15	79	.482	216	259	2	10	-43	70	OT1

Northwest

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	y-Vancouver Canucks	82	49	28	5	103	.628	272	222	4	4	+50	99	W1
2	x-Colorado Avalanche	82	43	30	9	95	.579	244	233	7	5	+11	85	OT1
3	Calgary Flames	82	40	32	10	90	.549	204	210	3	7	-6	81	L1
4	Minnesota Wild	82	38	36	8	84	.512	219	246	5	7	-27	73	OT1
5	Edmonton Oilers	82	27	47	8	62	.378	214	284	8	6	-70	58	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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