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

2007–08 Final Standings

2007–08 Game Results

Buffalo finished 18th in the league, 4th in the Northeast.

Eastern

Northeast

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	y-Montréal Canadiens	82	47	25	10	104	.634	262	222	5	6	+40	96	W3
2	x-Ottawa Senators	82	43	31	8	94	.573	261	247	3	5	+14	87	L1
3	x-Boston Bruins	82	41	29	12	94	.573	212	222	6	7	-10	78	L1
4	Buffalo Sabres	82	39	31	12	90	.549	255	242	4	9	+13	88	W1
5	Toronto Maple Leafs	82	36	35	11	83	.506	231	260	3	4	-29	73	L2

Atlantic

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	y-Pittsburgh Penguins	81	47	26	8	102	.630	247	214	7	4	+33	92	W1
2	x-New Jersey Devils	81	45	29	7	97	.599	203	195	7	4	+8	83	L1
3	x-New York Rangers	81	42	27	12	96	.593	211	196	8	8	+15	87	OT1
4	x-Philadelphia Flyers	81	41	29	11	93	.574	246	233	3	6	+13	87	W1
5	New York Islanders	82	35	38	9	79	.482	194	243	5	3	-49	63	W1

Southeast

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	y-Washington Capitals	82	43	31	8	94	.573	242	231	4	4	+11	86	W7
2	Carolina Hurricanes	82	43	33	6	92	.561	252	249	2	3	+3	83	L1
3	Florida Panthers	82	38	35	9	85	.518	216	226	5	6	-10	79	L1
4	Atlanta Thrashers	82	34	40	8	76	.463	216	272	9	6	-56	62	W1
5	Tampa Bay Lightning	82	31	42	9	71	.433	223	267	2	1	-44	67	L4

Western

Central

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	p-Detroit Red Wings	81	53	21	7	113	.698	253	183	5	5	+70	107	W1
2	x-Nashville Predators	82	41	32	9	91	.555	230	229	3	5	+1	83	L1
3	Chicago Blackhawks	81	40	33	8	88	.543	238	231	5	4	+7	83	W4
4	Columbus Blue Jackets	81	34	35	12	80	.494	192	214	3	8	-22	74	L2
5	St. Louis Blues	81	32	36	13	77	.475	201	236	3	5	-35	69	W1

Pacific

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	y-San Jose Sharks	81	49	22	10	108	.667	220	189	6	6	+31	94	L1
2	x-Anaheim Ducks	81	46	27	8	100	.617	202	189	7	7	+13	87	W2
3	x-Dallas Stars	81	44	30	7	95	.586	238	205	5	3	+33	92	L1
4	Phoenix Coyotes	81	38	37	6	82	.506	212	228	5	5	-16	75	W1
5	Los Angeles Kings	82	32	43	7	71	.433	231	266	5	3	-35	70	L1

Northwest

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	y-Minnesota Wild	81	44	28	9	97	.599	220	214	3	7	+6	85	W4
2	x-Calgary Flames	82	42	30	10	94	.573	229	227	3	3	+2	83	W1
3	x-Colorado Avalanche	81	43	31	7	93	.574	227	216	6	3	+11	84	W1
4	Edmonton Oilers	82	41	35	6	88	.537	235	251	15	4	-16	73	W1
5	Vancouver Canucks	82	39	33	10	88	.537	213	215	6	9	-2	82	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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