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

2022–23 Final Standings

2022–23 Game Results

Buffalo finished 20th in the league, 5th in the Atlantic.

Eastern

Atlantic

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	p-Boston Bruins	82	65	12	5	135	.823	305	177	4	3	+128	123	W8
2	x-Toronto Maple Leafs	82	50	21	11	111	.677	279	222	1	2	+57	101	W4
3	x-Tampa Bay Lightning	82	46	30	6	98	.598	283	254	3	2	+29	91	W1

Metropolitan

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	y-Carolina Hurricanes	82	52	21	9	113	.689	266	213	4	3	+53	100	W2
2	x-New Jersey Devils	82	52	22	8	112	.683	291	226	2	4	+65	103	W2
3	x-New York Rangers	82	47	22	13	107	.652	277	219	4	3	+58	101	L1

WILD CARD

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	x-New York Islanders	82	42	31	9	93	.567	243	222	1	5	+21	91	W1
2	x-Florida Panthers	82	42	32	8	92	.561	290	273	2	1	+17	87	L1
3	Pittsburgh Penguins	82	40	31	11	91	.555	262	264	1	1	-2	81	OT1
4	Buffalo Sabres	82	42	33	7	91	.555	296	300	3	3	-4	81	W2
5	Ottawa Senators	82	39	35	8	86	.524	261	271	2	1	-10	79	OT1
6	Detroit Red Wings	82	35	37	10	80	.488	240	279	3	4	-39	70	L4
7	Washington Capitals	82	35	37	10	80	.488	255	265	2	4	-10	79	OT1
8	Philadelphia Flyers	82	31	38	13	75	.457	222	277	2	1	-55	64	W2
9	Montréal Canadiens	82	31	45	6	68	.415	232	307	5	2	-75	58	L3
10	Columbus Blue Jackets	82	25	48	9	59	.360	214	330	1	1	-116	48	L1

Western

Pacific

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	z-Vegas Golden Knights	82	51	22	9	111	.677	272	229	5	4	+43	96	W2
2	x-Edmonton Oilers	82	50	23	9	109	.665	325	260	0	4	+65	101	W9
3	x-Los Angeles Kings	82	47	25	10	104	.634	280	257	6	3	+23	88	W2

Central

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	y-Colorado Avalanche	82	51	24	7	109	.665	280	226	6	3	+54	99	W2
2	x-Dallas Stars	82	47	21	14	108	.659	285	218	4	3	+67	103	W6
3	x-Minnesota Wild	82	46	25	11	103	.628	246	225	7	6	+21	89	OT1

WILD CARD

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	x-Seattle Kraken	82	46	28	8	100	.610	289	256	0	4	+33	93	L2
2	x-Winnipeg Jets	82	46	33	3	95	.579	247	225	1	1	+22	90	L1
3	Calgary Flames	82	38	27	17	93	.567	260	252	2	5	+8	86	W1
4	Nashville Predators	82	42	32	8	92	.561	229	238	6	2	-9	77	L1
5	Vancouver Canucks	82	38	37	7	83	.506	276	298	6	2	-22	74	W2
6	St. Louis Blues	82	37	38	7	81	.494	263	301	3	3	-38	71	L3
7	Arizona Coyotes	82	28	40	14	70	.427	228	299	3	4	-71	60	OT1
8	San Jose Sharks	82	22	44	16	60	.366	234	321	1	6	-87	58	L5
9	Chicago Blackhawks	82	26	49	7	59	.360	204	301	2	2	-97	51	OT1
10	Anaheim Ducks	82	23	47	12	58	.354	209	338	3	3	-129	45	L2

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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