New York state of maligned: Who has it worse this year, the Sabres or the Rangers?

It hasn’t been a great start to the season in the state of New York. How bad has it been? Bad enough that today’s post is a “Which team in the state has it worst?”, and we’re not even including the ones that’s only won 13 of their 35 games under the new coach who was supposed to turn things around. Sorry, Islanders fans, you get the bronze medal of misery. Stop being such overachievers if you want to be included next time.

Instead, today’s post is Sabres vs. Rangers. The simple question: Whose season has been worse? The slightly less simple but more accurate question: Is it possible that anyone can compete with what’s going on in Buffalo right now?

I’m not sure that it is, but the Rangers are our best contender, at least until Elias Pettersson and J.T. Miller becomes the first teammates in NHL history to drop the gloves with each other off an opening faceoff. So we’re going to limit ourselves to these two teams, and try to answer the question using a highly calibrated scientific method of me randomly coming up with an unlucky 13 categories and seeing where it leads us.

Sabres or Rangers, who you got? For your sake, let’s hope it’s neither, but let’s dive in.

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