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

2024–25 Final Standings

2024–25 Game Results

Buffalo finished 26th in the league, 7th in the Atlantic.

Eastern

Atlantic

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	y-Toronto Maple Leafs	82	52	26	4	108	.659	268	231	1	2	+37	94	W5
2	x-Tampa Bay Lightning	82	47	27	8	102	.622	294	219	2	3	+75	106	L1
3	x-Florida Panthers	82	47	31	4	98	.598	252	223	6	0	+29	90	L2

Metropolitan

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	z-Washington Capitals	82	51	22	9	111	.677	288	232	2	3	+56	100	L1
2	x-Carolina Hurricanes	82	47	30	5	99	.604	266	233	0	3	+33	94	L3
3	x-New Jersey Devils	82	42	33	7	91	.555	242	222	2	2	+20	89	L1

WILD CARD

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	x-Ottawa Senators	82	45	30	7	97	.591	243	234	1	2	+9	85	W1
2	x-Montréal Canadiens	82	40	31	11	91	.555	245	265	2	4	-20	76	W1
3	Columbus Blue Jackets	82	40	33	9	89	.543	273	268	6	1	+5	82	W6
4	Detroit Red Wings	82	39	35	8	86	.524	238	259	3	0	-21	74	OT1
5	New York Rangers	82	39	36	7	85	.518	256	255	1	0	+1	82	W2
6	New York Islanders	82	35	35	12	82	.500	224	260	2	3	-36	70	L2
7	Pittsburgh Penguins	82	34	36	12	80	.488	243	293	1	6	-50	68	W1
8	Buffalo Sabres	82	36	39	7	79	.482	269	289	4	2	-20	75	W1
9	Boston Bruins	82	33	39	10	76	.463	222	272	0	1	-50	66	OT1
10	Philadelphia Flyers	82	33	39	10	76	.463	238	286	6	3	-48	66	L2

Western

Central

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	p-Winnipeg Jets	82	56	22	4	116	.707	277	191	2	1	+86	111	W1
2	x-Dallas Stars	82	50	26	6	106	.646	277	224	2	2	+53	99	L4
3	x-Colorado Avalanche	82	49	29	4	102	.622	277	234	4	3	+43	96	W1

Pacific

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	y-Vegas Golden Knights	82	50	22	10	110	.671	275	219	1	5	+56	102	W1
2	x-Los Angeles Kings	82	48	25	9	105	.640	250	206	1	3	+44	99	L1
3	x-Edmonton Oilers	82	48	29	5	101	.616	259	236	0	1	+23	90	W1

WILD CARD

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	x-Minnesota Wild	82	45	30	7	97	.591	228	239	3	3	-11	78	W2
2	x-St. Louis Blues	82	44	30	8	96	.585	254	233	4	2	+21	88	W1
3	Calgary Flames	82	41	27	14	96	.585	225	238	5	2	-13	76	W4
4	Vancouver Canucks	82	38	30	14	90	.549	236	253	3	2	-17	76	L1
5	Utah Hockey Club	82	38	31	13	89	.543	241	251	1	4	-10	80	L1
6	Anaheim Ducks	82	35	37	10	80	.488	221	263	4	2	-42	67	OT2
7	Seattle Kraken	82	35	41	6	76	.463	247	265	2	3	-18	77	L1
8	Nashville Predators	82	30	44	8	68	.415	214	274	2	0	-60	61	W1
9	Chicago Blackhawks	82	25	46	11	61	.372	226	296	2	4	-70	61	W2
10	San Jose Sharks	82	20	50	12	52	.317	210	315	2	5	-105	51	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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