Remembering your favorite team’s worst postseason by goals differential

 What was your favorite team’s worst postseason?

Probably this one, at least for now. Nobody has fun in the playoffs, at least until they’re over.

But let’s try to find a more objective answer. We could just point to any time that your team was swept in the first round, since going four-and-out is about as bad as it comes. But if we did that, we wouldn’t be able to use every team. (Yes, that was a stealth trivia question: Name every team that’s never been swept in a first-round best-of-seven. Answer down below.)

So instead, let’s go with team stat that a reader recently asked me about: playoff goals differential.

I haven’t run it by Dom’s supercomputer quite yet, but I’m going to work from the assumption that scoring goals is good and giving up goals is bad, and giving up way more than you score is a sign that things haven’t gone great. So today, let’s find each team’s single worst postseason by goals differential, and dig up those miserable memories. Let’s remember some sighs.

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