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

2025–26 Final Standings

2025–26 Game Results

Buffalo finished 4th in the league, 1st in the Atlantic.

Eastern

Atlantic

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	y-Buffalo Sabres	82	50	23	9	109	.665	288	241	5	1	+47	95	OT1
2	x-Tampa Bay Lightning	82	50	26	6	106	.646	290	231	4	2	+59	100	L1
3	x-Montréal Canadiens	82	48	24	10	106	.646	283	256	4	5	+27	91	L1

Metropolitan

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	z-Carolina Hurricanes	82	53	22	7	113	.689	296	240	5	4	+56	99	W1
2	x-Pittsburgh Penguins	82	41	25	16	98	.598	293	268	3	10	+25	92	L3
3	x-Philadelphia Flyers	82	43	27	12	98	.598	250	243	10	4	+7	82	W3

WILD CARD

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	x-Boston Bruins	82	45	27	10	100	.610	272	250	4	3	+22	89	W2
2	x-Ottawa Senators	82	44	27	11	99	.604	278	246	3	1	+32	91	W1
3	Washington Capitals	82	43	30	9	95	.579	263	244	2	6	+19	90	W4
4	Detroit Red Wings	82	41	31	10	92	.561	241	258	2	4	-17	77	L1
5	Columbus Blue Jackets	82	40	30	12	92	.561	253	253	7	2	0	80	L2
6	New York Islanders	82	43	34	5	91	.555	233	241	4	5	-8	80	L3
7	New Jersey Devils	82	42	37	3	87	.530	230	254	4	1	-24	73	L1
8	Florida Panthers	82	40	38	4	84	.512	251	276	5	2	-25	73	W3
9	Toronto Maple Leafs	82	32	36	14	78	.476	253	299	1	4	-46	69	L5
10	New York Rangers	82	34	39	9	77	.470	238	250	3	1	-12	77	W1

Western

Central

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	p-Colorado Avalanche	82	55	16	11	121	.738	302	203	4	6	+99	114	W3
2	x-Dallas Stars	82	50	20	12	112	.683	279	226	6	4	+53	99	W5
3	x-Minnesota Wild	82	46	24	12	104	.634	272	240	4	5	+32	93	W1

Pacific

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	y-Vegas Golden Knights	82	39	26	17	95	.579	265	250	1	8	+15	89	W3
2	x-Edmonton Oilers	82	41	30	11	93	.567	282	269	0	4	+13	87	W1
3	x-Anaheim Ducks	82	43	33	6	92	.561	273	288	8	0	-15	75	W1

WILD CARD

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	x-Utah Mammoth	82	43	33	6	92	.561	268	240	0	0	+28	91	L1
2	x-Los Angeles Kings	82	35	27	20	90	.549	225	247	5	9	-22	76	L1
3	St. Louis Blues	82	37	33	12	86	.524	231	258	1	4	-27	74	W4
4	Nashville Predators	82	38	34	10	86	.524	247	269	5	2	-22	74	L2
5	San Jose Sharks	82	39	35	8	86	.524	251	292	2	2	-41	70	W1
6	Winnipeg Jets	82	35	35	12	82	.500	231	260	2	4	-29	73	L4
7	Seattle Kraken	82	34	37	11	79	.482	226	263	2	6	-37	71	L3
8	Calgary Flames	82	34	39	9	77	.470	212	259	4	3	-47	65	W1
9	Chicago Blackhawks	82	29	39	14	72	.439	213	275	3	5	-62	62	W1
10	Vancouver Canucks	82	25	49	8	58	.354	216	316	6	2	-100	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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