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

2014–15 Final Standings

2014–15 Game Results

Buffalo finished 30th in the league, 8th in the Atlantic.

Eastern

Atlantic

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	y-Montréal Canadiens	82	50	22	10	110	.671	221	189	7	5	+32	94	W3
2	x-Tampa Bay Lightning	82	50	24	8	108	.659	262	211	3	5	+51	100	W3
3	x-Detroit Red Wings	82	43	25	14	100	.610	235	221	4	10	+14	89	W1
4	x-Ottawa Senators	82	43	26	13	99	.604	238	215	6	7	+23	91	W3
5	Boston Bruins	82	41	27	14	96	.585	213	211	4	10	+2	85	OT1
6	Florida Panthers	82	38	29	15	91	.555	206	223	8	10	-17	76	W2
7	Toronto Maple Leafs	82	30	44	8	68	.415	211	262	5	5	-51	64	OT1
8	Buffalo Sabres	82	23	51	8	54	.329	161	274	8	5	-113	40	L2

Metropolitan

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	p-New York Rangers	82	53	22	7	113	.689	252	192	4	5	+60	105	W1
2	x-Washington Capitals	82	45	26	11	101	.616	242	203	5	4	+39	96	L1
3	x-New York Islanders	82	47	28	7	101	.616	252	230	7	6	+22	89	OT1
4	x-Pittsburgh Penguins	82	43	27	12	98	.598	221	210	4	6	+11	87	W1
5	Columbus Blue Jackets	82	42	35	5	89	.543	236	250	9	2	-14	75	W3
6	Philadelphia Flyers	82	33	31	18	84	.512	215	234	3	11	-19	78	L2
7	New Jersey Devils	82	32	36	14	78	.476	181	216	5	7	-35	68	L1
8	Carolina Hurricanes	82	30	41	11	71	.433	188	226	5	7	-38	67	L1

Western

Pacific

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	z-Anaheim Ducks	82	51	24	7	109	.665	236	226	8	5	+10	85	W1
2	x-Vancouver Canucks	82	48	29	5	101	.616	242	222	6	2	+20	88	W3
3	x-Calgary Flames	82	45	30	7	97	.591	241	216	4	3	+25	91	L1
4	Los Angeles Kings	82	40	27	15	95	.579	220	205	2	8	+15	90	W1
5	San Jose Sharks	82	40	33	9	89	.543	228	232	4	6	-4	81	L1
6	Edmonton Oilers	82	24	44	14	62	.378	198	283	5	7	-85	54	OT1
7	Arizona Coyotes	82	24	50	8	56	.341	170	272	5	5	-102	45	L3

Central

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	y-St. Louis Blues	82	51	24	7	109	.665	248	201	9	4	+47	98	W2
2	x-Nashville Predators	82	47	25	10	104	.634	232	208	6	6	+24	91	L3
3	x-Chicago Blackhawks	82	48	28	6	102	.622	229	189	9	3	+40	96	L4
4	x-Minnesota Wild	82	46	28	8	100	.610	231	201	4	3	+30	93	L1
5	x-Winnipeg Jets	82	43	26	13	99	.604	230	210	7	6	+20	89	W1
6	Dallas Stars	82	41	31	10	92	.561	261	260	4	3	+1	82	W4
7	Colorado Avalanche	82	39	31	12	90	.549	219	227	10	4	-8	77	W3

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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