Confirmed with Link: Ethan Bear traded to Carolina for Warren Foegele

[McDoused]

Love Foegele! Great move. Sad to see Bear go.

 

[Perfect_Drug]

Bear was a good kid and will be a solid defender for Carolina but Foegele addresses a huge need for the Oilers

Prefer this to overpaying for Bertuzzi or trading for DeBrusk who has to get paid

I kinda hate this trade.

Bear was only at like the half-way point of his development.


Our RHD went from having a hole into being an absolute Crater.

 

[Tobias Kahun]

Zach Laing likes the add

That scares me

 

[McDoused]

I like it a lot. The value is very good, finally getting a legit top 9 LW who can score and kill penalties.

Bear IMO is overrated on here. He may be a top 4 d one day but this isn’t “Petry 2.0”. Bear can’t skate near as well as Petry could.

Also Petry was traded for a pick. Bear was traded for a legit hard nosed power forward.

 

[smokersarejokers]

Foegele's a good add. I like it.

I'm a Bear fan, but Foegele fills a need and it would be tough to roll with Barrie, Bear and Bouchard as we've discussed as week.

 

[Tobias Kahun]

I kinda hate this trade.

Bear was only at like the half-way point of his development.


Our RHD went from having a hole into being an absolute Crater.

Keeping bear still means it’s a crater with losing Larsson

 

[dss97]

Isn’t Foegele one of those guys with amazing advanced stats? I like this player but don’t like having another hole on the right side..

 

[Oilers in NS]

Just talked to my buddy who does play by play for the HABS on TSN and asked about Foegele. He says he has great wheels. I think a good trade IMO

 

[Llamamoto]

I've always been a huge fan of Foegele, he's a speedy two-way winger with offensive upside and great possession numbers. He's skilled but isn't a great finisher and isn't the smartest player, but should be a good fit next to one of our playmaking centers.

He's also very versatile, is able to play both the left and right side throughout the lineup.

Losing Bear really hurts though.

 

[BlueCheeseWithWings]

My heart goes out to the Indigenous folks in the Edmonton area.
Saw a TON of jerseys out there and have a couple friends with collections of just Bear.

The Ethan Bear Oilers logo made it to earrings and beadwork all through the province.

It was nice for us for a few games.

 

[SourOil]

Energy. Size. Great bottom six addition. That's what we need and there's a price to be paid to add it.

He makes us a better team now. That's the position we are in, so hopefully the kid flourishes and earns the respect of everyone discounting his value.

 

[Perfect_Drug]

Keeping bear still means it’s a crater with losing Larsson

If Barrie starts getting offers and rethinks signing with us, Bouchard is now our top pairing Dman.

 

[Oilhawks]

My heart goes out to the Indigenous folks in the Edmonton area.
Saw a TON of jerseys out there and have a couple friends with collections of just Bear.

The Ethan Bear Oilers logo made it to earrings and beadwork all through the province.

Yeah, I was at the River Cree nightmarket and there was beautiful hand made Ethan Bear beadwork and such everywhere. Lots of vehicles with Ethan Bear stickers and such too. He will be missed

 

[duul]

Guy generates so many chances. If he finishes even a bit better than he has, if he gets just a bit luckier, he will be a huge player for us.

 

[Hemsky4pm2]

Oilers were not going to win a cup with:

2+ D under 6 feet (had Barrie, Bear and Russell last season - didn't work when it mattered most)
2+ D under the age of 23. Bouchard is our best young D. Sorry Bear fans, that's just the reality. He's bigger, more athletic, more productive offensively. We also have Broberg coming, maybe Samorukov too. I like getting Ceci. Reminder - he will be making markedly less than Russell when he signed his big 4 x 4 extension in 2017.

I really prefer a D group of Nurse - Barrie, Keith - Ceci, ???, Russell Bouchard - over what we had last season.

 

[oXo Cube]

If Bear finds another gear in Carolina this might look a little gross with hindsight.

Certainly no guarantee of that at this point though.

 

[BlackDogg]

Why the hell would Edmonton trade Ethan Bear for Warren Foegele? Who the hell is Foegele?

Subway guy?

 

[McNuge]

Great trade. Sad to see bear go but now we have atleast 2 players we added who actually go to the net, not like our usual perimeter players.

 

[CycloneSweep]

I've always been a huge fan of Foegele, he's a speedy two-way winger with offensive upside and great possession numbers. He's skilled and is a good finisher, isn't the smartest player but should be a good fit next to one of our playmaking centers.

He's also very versatile, is able to play both the left and right side throughout the lineup.

Losing Bear really hurts though.

Everyone I've talked to mentioned he has hands of stone and has tons of issues finishing

 

[McJadeddog]

This is a really bad trade

 

[cyberpunk]

Foegele faster, generate chances, hard on the forecheck, it sounds like Oilers are harder to play against.

 

[Shathar]

Foegle is a huge upgrade in our bottom 6. I like it.

 

[woinf]

Not a bad trade in theory but we now have literally nobody who can actually play the defense part in our right handed defense group. And no Ceci isn't the answer, he needs to be sheltered.

 

[Ol' Jase]

This is a really bad trade

No, it’s actually not.

 

[MessierII]

This one is going to look really ugly in 2-3 years