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

2013–14 Final Standings

2013–14 Game Results

Buffalo finished 30th in the league, 8th in the Atlantic.

Eastern

Atlantic

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	p-Boston Bruins	82	54	19	9	117	.713	261	177	3	6	+84	114	L1
2	x-Tampa Bay Lightning	82	46	27	9	101	.616	240	215	8	6	+25	91	W4
3	x-Montréal Canadiens	82	46	28	8	100	.610	215	204	6	3	+11	85	W1

Metropolitan

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	y-Pittsburgh Penguins	82	51	24	7	109	.665	249	207	7	3	+42	96	OT2
2	x-New York Rangers	82	45	31	6	96	.585	218	193	4	3	+25	92	OT1
3	x-Philadelphia Flyers	82	42	30	10	94	.573	236	235	3	8	+1	84	OT1

WILD CARD

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	x-Columbus Blue Jackets	82	43	32	7	93	.567	231	216	5	2	+15	86	W1
2	x-Detroit Red Wings	82	39	28	15	93	.567	222	230	5	9	-8	81	W1
3	Washington Capitals	82	38	30	14	90	.549	235	240	10	11	-5	81	OT1
4	New Jersey Devils	82	35	29	18	88	.537	197	208	0	13	-11	83	W1
5	Ottawa Senators	82	37	31	14	88	.537	236	265	7	7	-29	72	W5
6	Toronto Maple Leafs	82	38	36	8	84	.512	231	256	9	4	-25	72	L4
7	Carolina Hurricanes	82	36	35	11	83	.506	207	230	2	4	-23	74	W2
8	New York Islanders	82	34	37	11	79	.482	225	267	9	6	-42	67	W3
9	Florida Panthers	82	29	45	8	66	.402	196	268	8	6	-72	56	L1
10	Buffalo Sabres	82	21	51	10	52	.317	157	248	7	5	-91	45	OT1

Western

Pacific

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	z-Anaheim Ducks	82	54	20	8	116	.707	266	209	3	6	+57	103	W4
2	x-San Jose Sharks	82	51	22	9	111	.677	249	200	10	7	+49	99	W2
3	x-Los Angeles Kings	82	46	28	8	100	.610	206	174	8	6	+32	95	OT1

Central

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	y-Colorado Avalanche	82	52	22	8	112	.683	250	220	5	4	+30	92	OT1
2	x-St. Louis Blues	82	52	23	7	111	.677	248	191	9	3	+57	101	L6
3	x-Chicago Blackhawks	82	46	21	15	107	.652	267	220	6	8	+47	99	L2

WILD CARD

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	x-Minnesota Wild	82	43	27	12	98	.598	207	206	8	8	+1	82	L1
2	x-Dallas Stars	82	40	31	11	91	.555	235	228	4	5	+7	85	L1
3	Phoenix Coyotes	82	37	30	15	89	.543	216	231	6	7	-15	77	W1
4	Nashville Predators	82	38	32	12	88	.537	216	242	2	9	-26	75	W3
5	Winnipeg Jets	82	37	35	10	84	.512	227	237	8	6	-10	78	W2
6	Vancouver Canucks	82	36	35	11	83	.506	196	223	5	7	-27	72	W1
7	Calgary Flames	82	35	40	7	77	.470	209	241	7	3	-32	69	L2
8	Edmonton Oilers	82	29	44	9	67	.409	203	270	4	3	-67	59	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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