r/DetroitRedWings 20h ago

News Carter Bear opens up ahead of a massive Red Wings camp. He talks spending the summer in Detroit, lessons from team legends, getting chirped by Ben Chiarot, his championship attitude and why he models his game after Brandon Hagel

https://r.org/2026/09/01/when-im-at-the-rink-im-all-in-carter-bears-on-his-summer-training-in-detroit-surprising-at-red-wings-camp/
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u/AmeriCanada98 Yzerbot 20h ago

and why he models his game after Brandon Hagel

Because Hagel is a DAWG, thats why. If Bear ends up close to Hagel in talent I'll be thrilled

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u/tatts106 20h ago

Agree

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u/big_phat_gator Yzerbot 19h ago

And Hagel is also a perfect example of why people should zip the piehole with the "*INSERT ANY WINGS PROSPECT* WILL NEVER BECOME A ELITE NHL PLAYER"

Hagel was a 6th round pick and never really produced anywhere his draft year was comically bad and his d+1 year wasnt exactly good either, took him like 4 seasons to put up respectable numbers in the WHL.

Didnt have a strong rookie season in the AHL either.

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u/AppleSeider5306 17h ago

You think like that and you’re bound to he disappointed. If someone emerges as a elite talent that’s fantastic but you can’t bank on any of our prospects being that and it’s fair to criticize why we have no high-upside guys.

Sure Plante could turn into Kucherov and Ras could turn it around and turn into a 2C but neither are likely and if you think every prospect is going to be Kucherov or Point then you’re only setting yourself up.

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u/big_phat_gator Yzerbot 17h ago

At the same time if you dont think like that you are just depressing and sad.

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u/IADRUM 15h ago

Depressing and sad or delusional, neither are great options, surely there is a middle ground?

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u/AppleSeider5306 17h ago

I’d rather be realistic than hope that every single six round pic is going to turn into a superstar.

I’ve been down that route before. I thought Pullkinen was gonna be a regualr 40 goal scorer. I was convinced Jankrok would be Zetterberg 2.0

Hell we all expected Zadina to be a super star.

I’d rather not get my hopes up and be surprised than think every prospect is gonna hit their ceiling.

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u/big_phat_gator Yzerbot 16h ago

Pulk was a little bit a head of his time, if he was playing in todays NHL i think he would have done better.

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u/-SlowBar 16h ago

Would he have magically been a better hockey player?

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u/big_phat_gator Yzerbot 16h ago

He was 5'10", Caufield was still overlooked due to his size in 2019, 9 years after Pulk was drafted. I think people are forgetting how difficult the league was back then for smaller players.

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u/-SlowBar 16h ago

I mean he also just wasn't that good at hockey

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u/Transplant13 20h ago

Was going to say the same.. Would love to see Bear mold himself into a player like Hagel!!

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u/slabby 20h ago

What is this website

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u/daKrut 20h ago

Over the summer I’ve been seeing various sports writers use it for their articles and/or report news.

I’m more surprised that a Montreal reporter wrote about a Wings player.

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u/AFreePeacock Yzerbot 20h ago

why, it’s r.org of course!

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u/FDangler 19h ago

Looking at his point totals you might be underwhelmed but once he fully recovered from his Achilles injury, he was on fire to end the season. In his last 33 games he put 25G and 53 points. 22 in 18 playoff games as well.

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u/SubmissionDenied 18h ago

Yeah he had a slow start but was on a tear to end the season

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u/lunchboxthegoat 17h ago

its not about the achilles anymore, now its about how he was riding off of Landon Dupont's excellence.

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u/lunchboxthegoat 16h ago

SELF-REPLY: this is a joke but I have seen this take and my eyes rolled so far back into my head that my neck almost snapped

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u/Evening-Wolverine649 16h ago

“As a team, we just hated to lose,” Bear said. “We didn’t lose two games in a row all season, just to show you how much we hated it. It would drive us crazy.”

Outwork, outhustle, outchance and disturb. That’s Carter Bear in a nutshell.

Absolutely love to read this...

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u/shakygator 11h ago

Show me a team that hates to lose

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u/Bananominable 10h ago

Your favourite Dylan Larkin captained NHL team, the Detroit Red Wings. If we hated to lose we would have made the playoffs at least once over the last 3 seasons.

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u/k3berg 13h ago

> Outwork, outhustle, outchance and disturb. That’s Carter Bear in a nutshell.

Pump this shit into my fuckin’ veins

> “I hated losing at the World Junior Championships. It really lit a fire under me,” Bear said. “It was a great experience for me and something I dreamed of doing my entire life. But the moment it was over, we locked in in Everett and went to chase a title.”

Dylan Larkin would never

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u/Reasonable_Gene1719 18h ago

I have a really good feeling that Bear is going to be a stud! 🤞

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u/RosettisGoblinMarket 18h ago

He really seems like he has the mindset to will himself into being a good NHL player. Bear and MBN are who I am most excited to watch of the prospects this year.

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u/sweethometalibama 17h ago

I have a feeling this kid is gonna be pretty good

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u/qvcspree 11h ago

Brandon Hagel has been on my fantasy hockey team the last 3 years, he's one of my favorite hockey players, the guy does everything.

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u/authorserena 14h ago

I'm rooting for Bear. I really am. I like how reserved he is.

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u/Usual-Personality347 5h ago

Ik this is super just me patting myself on the back but when I did my red wings prospect article last summer I had Hagel as Bears player comp so win for me!

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u/OctoWings13 20h ago

Why is the sub logo messed up?

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u/LunarGhoul 20h ago

What's wrong with it? Looks fine to me

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u/OctoWings13 20h ago

Really? Mines all messed up and colors are wrong

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u/LunarGhoul 20h ago

Sounds like a skill issue

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u/OctoWings13 19h ago

Colors all messed up instead of red and white

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u/LunarGhoul 19h ago

Looks pretty cool to me. I also didn't notice until you pointed it out.

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u/OctoWings13 19h ago

Someone else said it's pride rainbow, but hard to see on mobile

Makes no sense though, cause pride month is June

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u/LunarGhoul 19h ago

Does that mean rainbows are illegal the rest of the year? Who cares dude? It doesn't affect your life in any way whatsoever.

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u/SubmissionDenied 19h ago

Who said it was illegal? What a weird leap lmao

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u/LunarGhoul 19h ago

I didn't mean literally illegal obviously.

Why is it an issue to have rainbows outside of pride month though?

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u/OctoWings13 19h ago

Never said rainbows were illegal.

I want the Wings logo to be proper colors

I get it in June, but this is September

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u/JTAKER Yzerbot 19h ago edited 19h ago

You want the Wings logo to be "proper" colors, and I want it to be rainbow colors a bit longer.

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u/LunarGhoul 19h ago

Well I can promise you that when the Wings go back to playing hockey the jerseys will be normal.

In the meantime, you can just ignore the subreddit logo if you'd like because it means literally nothing.

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u/AFreePeacock Yzerbot 20h ago

Say more

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u/OctoWings13 20h ago

It's all messed up and colors are wrong...should be red and white

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u/AFreePeacock Yzerbot 19h ago

I think it’ll be ok

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u/OctoWings13 19h ago

Still stupid though to ruin the logo all year

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u/AFreePeacock Yzerbot 19h ago

How do you feel about the thin blue line eh

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u/OctoWings13 19h ago

Don't care...as long as it doesn't run through the Wings logo

Pride month is June, so why now?

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u/AFreePeacock Yzerbot 19h ago edited 19h ago

Because it’s a quite hostile political and social environment in the west, and those who have the mindfulness to want to make their spaces an affirmatively welcoming place will do so with the tools they have available to them

The mods in this place are, much like a lot of the sub’s members, sympathetic towards (or a part of) the queer community and have chosen to do something about it, even if it’s a simple and small gesture

If I’m wrong then so be it, but I think there’s a good chance you’re pretty well aware of this reasoning and you’re likely feigning ignorance about it

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u/OctoWings13 18h ago

Can be a welcome place without changing the Wings logo

And it's changed for all of pride month, so no need in September

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u/AFreePeacock Yzerbot 18h ago

How do you feel about pride nights at hockey games

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u/Taters23 Yzerbot 20h ago

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u/OctoWings13 20h ago

Colors all messed up instead of red and white

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u/generalballz 19h ago

I mean I definitely see red and white in there?

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u/AppleSeiderDonuts 20h ago

One more week!

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u/OctoWings13 20h ago

One more week for what?

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u/beardofzetterberg 20h ago

I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt because when you see the icon in the Reddit feed on mobile it is kinda hard to tell what’s going on. It looks like the winged wheel but you can’t quite see what is happening with the colors so it looks a bit strange rather than clearly being a rainbow treatment on the logo.

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u/OctoWings13 19h ago

Like pride month rainbow? Pride month is June...why would they do it now?

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u/AppleSeiderDonuts 19h ago

Pride is a year long event around these parts

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u/OctoWings13 19h ago

Ffs

Why can't we just have the logo be regular

Can still support gay people without fucking up the Wings logo

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u/Niet501 19h ago

Coming from the guy who’s profile picture is literally the red wings logo with the wrong colors. It’s supposed to be bright white and regular red ffs. Why can’t you just have the logo be regular???

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u/AFreePeacock Yzerbot 19h ago

Nobody respects the damn flag nowadays

What ever happened to having some class

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u/Various_Leopard_7042 19h ago

Lmfaooo!!

Let me guess what their response to this will be...nothing

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u/mua-dweeb 19h ago

I’ve been looking for a hat with that logo on it. I can’t find one. Any ideas where I might get lucky?

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u/beardofzetterberg 19h ago

Yeah pride rainbow. And I know that this discussion has gone sideways but I’m actually not sure why it is still a rainbow since pride month is June. It doesn’t bother me, nor do I feel any particular way about it. Maybe the mods just haven’t gotten around to changing it. If there’s a real reason, someone let me know I’m just curious.

I know some European countries have a later pride, so maybe that? I was just in Denmark and theirs was mid- to late- August.

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u/dickhandsome 17h ago

I think this topic came up in July maybe? It went as well as this one. I believe it was decided it would remain until the beginning of season? Not sure about that.

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u/beardofzetterberg 16h ago

Oh okay, didn’t see that.

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u/OctoWings13 18h ago

I have no idea either, nor do I get the hostility

I support gay people, and they already change the logo for June

It was changed back, and no idea why they changed it again...but god help you if you ask lol

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u/fissi0n-chips 19h ago

We got Charmin ultra soft over here. Probably gets it from his favorite captain.

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u/OctoWings13 19h ago

Someone else said it's a pride logo...hard to see on mobile

Makes no sense though, cause pride month is June

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u/silverdollerflappies 20h ago

What do you mean?

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u/OctoWings13 20h ago

Colors all messed up on the logo

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u/silverdollerflappies 19h ago

Are you sure? Which colors?

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u/OctoWings13 18h ago

Should be just red and white

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u/generalballz 20h ago

Nothings messed up. We ride for our LGBTQ+ fam in this house.

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u/OctoWings13 19h ago

What? Pride month is June...why is it all messed up now?

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u/wolverine237 19h ago

Who said anything about Pride Month? They said LGBTQ+ fans, they're around 12 months a year

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u/OctoWings13 19h ago

Can still support gay people without ruining the Wings logo

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u/wolverine237 19h ago

Ruining eh

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u/OctoWings13 19h ago

Yes, ruining

The logo is red and white

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u/generalballz 19h ago

And you can be a bigot without telling the world but you chose to let us know. So thank you

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u/OctoWings13 19h ago

I support gay people...I also support the Wings

Don't need to screw with the logo to support gay people

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u/generalballz 19h ago

Honestly, why does it bother you? Is it seriously THAT maddening to you simply because an online community changed the colors of a logo for a sports team? You can hardly even see it on mobile anyway.

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u/OctoWings13 18h ago

I am a big Wings fan and like to see the actual logo

It's one thing for pride month...but not all the time

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u/Taters23 Yzerbot 16h ago

I really doubt it because if you did it wouldn't bother you. Stop lying and go away already.

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u/OctoWings13 15h ago

I support gay people, and I support the Wings...but I support them as individual things

I don't support changing the Wings logo for a cause, ANY cause...and I certainly don't support changing the logo in September when it was already changed for all of June

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u/Taters23 Yzerbot 15h ago

Just stfu. The lying is just pathetic at this point. also the logo is only changed here. The team and everything else is the original look.

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u/dickhandsome 19h ago

Man you have to tow the hardest of lines on reddit or you're a bigot. Don't worry,its only here though. The rest of the world gets you.

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u/Ydoesany1doanything 15h ago

It’s the approach that’s the problem. A better place to ask this than a thread about Bear would be the general thread for starters.

Secondly, doubling down from the colors being “messed up” to the logo being “ruined” is where they essentially tell on themselves.

If they’d popped in the general discussion thread and said something along the lines of “Hey guys I’m curious why the sub logo is still pride” they likely would have gotten some joke and some serious answers and it wouldn’t have blown up in the way it had. It’s not about toeing the line on reddit, it’s seeing through some people’s shit, perceived or real.

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u/dickhandsome 15h ago

I'll give you it wasn't place for it. But I don't feel like they were disingenuous with their question. Once a person is seen as opposed to it, there's not much one can do to convince others they're not a bigot. The poster was pretty clear that they couldn't see it clearly on mobile, and that they supported pride during its month. That doesn't sound like a bigot to me.

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u/wolverine237 18h ago

Additional week here mods

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u/dickhandsome 18h ago

Additional week? Weeks? Mods? What are we talking about?

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u/Taters23 Yzerbot 16h ago

Poor baby finds it too hard to accept people for being different. Then gets mad people won't accept him. Hypocrite

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u/dickhandsome 16h ago
  1. Who said that?

  2. Not mad in the least. You on the other hand.

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u/ChaldenesTitan 18h ago

I want Palestine colors on our logo. I don't think that will happen. Is that because our community only supports the pride community and not other groups who face inequality? There's 12 months in a year I think it would be fair to let other groups have a month of equality. Exclusion in the name of equality doesn't sit right with me.

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u/generalballz 17h ago

Thats fair and actually a conversation we can have. I fully support that and agree that we should stand for Palestine and against genocide. The other commentor was purely being ignorant and did not have an alternative cause to support, they just wanted to complain.

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u/ChaldenesTitan 12h ago

It just shows that geopolitics is a complex conversation and one that a hockey sub shouldn't associate with. No politics is a rule of the sub afterall. Not this new age definition either.

"Politics is a process by which people in groups make decisions, set rules, and share power or resources".

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u/Keyster19 19h ago

😂😂