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I think the problem here is that someone came in saying "it's so funny that people see my scrappy misfit team as villains!", which kind of implies that they are especially scrappy or misfit-y. If they're only a scrappy misfit team as much as any other team, then there's no especially amusing juxtaposition there - try subbing in any other team name (like, for example, the Flyers or CBJ) and you can see how annoying it is. "Oh, it's so funny that Pens fans see my team as villains when really they're scrappy and love each other!" No, they see your team as opponents who they don't like and don't want to win for a variety of reasons. (The decision to call them "villains" is also weird as hell - people don't want the Pens to win for a variety of reasons, but literal villains? Ehhh. Even the people who hate them and call them evil are exaggerating for comic effect. I don't think there's any serious contingent that thinks the Pens shouldn't win because they're downright evil, instead of because they're a divisional rival or their fans are annoying or they won too recently or or or.)

tl;dr Fake exceptionalism and misrepresentation of other people's point of view is annoying, hence the response.