Patterson got upset because the things Epp said cut a little to close to home for him. Same with clowns like Sekeres and Price. Twitter clowns like Drance, Wagner, Sas and others were equally vexed because it exposed them for the clowns they are.
The types mentioned above always coat their "analysis" in conjecture and heresay, with Sekeres being a fabricator of outright lies.
Certainly the team, coaching, and management are ripe for being criticized. There is no doubt about that. However, the way some of the media go about their criticism has more to do with their need for traffic to their site, and has nothing to do with actually reporting on the team. Reporters like Kuzma and MacIntyre actually publish well written articles that still levy deserved criticism on the organization without being petty and self-centered about it.
This isn't really surprising though considering how small the Vancouver media is in comparison to other actual major cities, of which Vancouver is not. When a city only has one major sports team of note, and a smaller population, this myopic approach is the outcome.