You had an inflated view of him in the first place, as someone who watches most Edmonton games, where Bear first came into the league and started getting some notoriety, I can assure you he has always been dogshit.
He is like a more offensively minded Ferraro, in the sense that they both look like they are putting in 110% effort, skating hard, lots of stuff happening while they are on the ice, but at the end of the day nothing good actually comes from any of that effort and random action taken by either player.
At the end of the day we are talking about a 27 year old, offensively oriented defenseman, that has played on a team with McDrai, and has a career high of 21 points, and a total of 67 points through 275 games, and a -14. I have no idea why we or any team would have any interest in a guy like that unless you desperately need a warm body to take up a spot on the roster.