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

2023–24 Final Standings

2023–24 Game Results

Buffalo finished 22nd in the league, 6th in the Atlantic.

Eastern

Atlantic

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	y-Florida Panthers	82	52	24	6	110	.671	268	200	3	2	+68	105	W4
2	x-Boston Bruins	82	47	20	15	109	.665	267	224	4	3	+43	96	L2
3	x-Toronto Maple Leafs	82	46	26	10	102	.622	303	263	5	2	+40	93	L2

Metropolitan

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	p-New York Rangers	82	55	23	4	114	.695	282	229	4	3	+53	99	W2
2	x-Carolina Hurricanes	82	52	23	7	111	.677	279	216	2	5	+63	104	L1
3	x-New York Islanders	82	39	27	16	94	.573	246	263	1	5	-17	78	W2

WILD CARD

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	x-Tampa Bay Lightning	82	45	29	8	98	.598	291	268	3	1	+23	88	W1
2	x-Washington Capitals	82	40	31	11	91	.555	220	257	4	5	-37	69	W3
3	Detroit Red Wings	82	41	32	9	91	.555	278	274	3	1	+4	83	W3
4	Pittsburgh Penguins	82	38	32	12	88	.537	255	251	2	3	+4	84	L1
5	Philadelphia Flyers	82	38	33	11	87	.530	235	261	4	3	-26	73	L1
6	Buffalo Sabres	82	39	37	6	84	.512	246	244	2	1	+2	82	W1
7	New Jersey Devils	82	38	39	5	81	.494	264	283	0	2	-19	77	L2
8	Ottawa Senators	82	37	41	4	78	.476	255	281	5	0	-26	72	W1
9	Montréal Canadiens	82	30	36	16	76	.463	236	289	4	8	-53	66	OT4
10	Columbus Blue Jackets	82	27	43	12	66	.402	237	300	3	2	-63	63	W1

Western

Central

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	z-Dallas Stars	82	52	21	9	113	.689	298	234	4	2	+64	101	W2
2	x-Winnipeg Jets	82	52	24	6	110	.671	259	199	0	1	+60	104	W8
3	x-Colorado Avalanche	82	50	25	7	107	.652	304	254	2	2	+50	97	W1

Pacific

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	y-Vancouver Canucks	82	50	23	9	109	.665	279	223	0	2	+56	101	L1
2	x-Edmonton Oilers	82	49	27	6	104	.634	294	237	2	1	+57	99	L2
3	x-Los Angeles Kings	82	44	27	11	99	.604	256	215	2	5	+41	97	W1

WILD CARD

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	x-Nashville Predators	82	47	30	5	99	.604	269	248	3	0	+21	88	L1
2	x-Vegas Golden Knights	82	45	29	8	98	.598	267	245	4	2	+22	88	L1
3	St. Louis Blues	82	43	33	6	92	.561	239	250	5	2	-11	77	OT1
4	Minnesota Wild	82	39	34	9	87	.530	251	263	3	3	-12	78	L1
5	Calgary Flames	82	38	39	5	81	.494	253	271	0	4	-18	78	W1
6	Seattle Kraken	82	34	35	13	81	.494	217	236	3	4	-19	75	W1
7	Arizona Coyotes	82	36	41	5	77	.470	256	274	2	0	-18	76	W1
8	Anaheim Ducks	82	27	50	5	59	.360	204	295	1	2	-91	53	W1
9	Chicago Blackhawks	82	23	53	6	52	.317	179	290	1	1	-111	45	OT1
10	San Jose Sharks	82	19	54	9	47	.287	181	331	1	5	-150	38	L3

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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