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

2016–17 Final Standings

2016–17 Game Results

Buffalo finished 26th 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	47	26	9	103	.628	226	200	3	2	+26	92	W1
2	x-Ottawa Senators	82	44	28	10	98	.598	212	214	6	4	-2	80	L1
3	x-Boston Bruins	82	44	31	7	95	.579	234	212	2	3	+22	91	L1
4	x-Toronto Maple Leafs	82	40	27	15	95	.579	251	242	1	8	+9	87	L1
5	Tampa Bay Lightning	82	42	30	10	94	.573	234	227	4	3	+7	84	W3
6	Florida Panthers	82	35	36	11	81	.494	210	237	5	6	-27	72	W2
7	Detroit Red Wings	82	33	36	13	79	.482	207	244	9	0	-37	65	W1
8	Buffalo Sabres	82	33	37	12	78	.476	201	237	2	6	-36	70	L2

Metropolitan

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	p-Washington Capitals	82	55	19	8	118	.720	263	182	2	5	+81	112	L1
2	x-Pittsburgh Penguins	82	50	21	11	111	.677	282	234	4	5	+48	98	L2
3	x-Columbus Blue Jackets	82	50	24	8	108	.659	249	195	2	2	+54	102	W1
4	x-New York Rangers	82	48	28	6	102	.622	256	220	3	4	+36	95	W1
5	New York Islanders	82	41	29	12	94	.573	241	242	2	4	-1	82	W6
6	Philadelphia Flyers	82	39	33	10	88	.537	219	236	7	5	-17	75	OT1
7	Carolina Hurricanes	82	36	31	15	87	.530	215	236	3	6	-21	75	W1
8	New Jersey Devils	82	28	40	14	70	.427	183	244	3	3	-61	59	L3

Western

Central

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	z-Chicago Blackhawks	82	50	23	9	109	.665	244	213	4	1	+31	92	OT1
2	x-Minnesota Wild	82	49	25	8	106	.646	266	208	3	2	+58	102	W4
3	x-St. Louis Blues	82	46	29	7	99	.604	235	218	2	2	+17	88	W3
4	x-Nashville Predators	82	41	29	12	94	.573	240	224	2	4	+16	88	L1
5	Winnipeg Jets	82	40	35	7	87	.530	249	256	3	1	-7	79	W7
6	Dallas Stars	82	34	37	11	79	.482	223	262	1	2	-39	69	W1
7	Colorado Avalanche	82	22	56	4	48	.293	166	278	1	2	-112	43	L1

Pacific

	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS ▾	PTS%	GF	GA	SOW	SOL	DIFF	xPTS	STRK
1	y-Anaheim Ducks	82	46	23	13	105	.640	223	200	3	3	+23	91	W4
2	x-Edmonton Oilers	82	47	26	9	103	.628	247	212	4	5	+35	95	W3
3	x-San Jose Sharks	82	46	29	7	99	.604	221	201	2	1	+20	89	W1
4	x-Calgary Flames	82	45	33	4	94	.573	226	221	4	2	+5	83	L1
5	Los Angeles Kings	82	39	35	8	86	.524	201	205	2	4	-4	81	OT1
6	Arizona Coyotes	82	30	42	10	70	.427	197	260	6	2	-63	58	L1
7	Vancouver Canucks	82	30	43	9	69	.421	182	243	4	2	-61	58	L8

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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