Lance Bouma

Lance Bouma
Date of birth	March 25, 1990
place of birth	Provost , Alberta , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	95 kg
position	center
number	# 17
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2008 , 3rd round, 78th position Calgary Flames
Career stations
2005-2010	Vancouver Giants
2010-2017	Calgary Flames
2017-2018	Chicago Blackhawks Rockford IceHogs
2018-2019	Genève-Servette HC
since 2019	Ontario Reign

Lance Gordon Bouma (born March 25, 1990 in Provost , Alberta ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Ontario Reign of the American Hockey League since September 2019 . Previously, the center spent over seven years organizing the Calgary Flames, among other things .

Career

In the Western Hockey League Bantam Draft 2005, the Vancouver Giants used their second right to vote to acquire the rights to Lance Bouma. In the 2005-06 season he played in the Rural Alberta Midget Hockey League for most of the season . As a 15-year-old, the Vancouver Giants brought him into the WHL and let him complete his first missions there. In five games he impressed with one goal and three assists. In the 2006/07 season he made the leap into the regular team of the Vancouver Giants. Bouma played in 49 regular season games and 22 play-off games. In the play-offs, the Giants failed only in the seventh final game at the Medicine Hat Tigers and missed winning the President's Cup . Nevertheless, the team qualified as the hosting team for the 2007 Memorial Cup and successfully took revenge on the Medicine Hat Tigers in the final. In the same year he also played for the Alberta team at the Canada Games 2007 , where he took part in the ice hockey tournament. Bouma scored two goals and the team finished the championship in fourth place.

In the 2007/08 season Bouma set a new career record with twelve goals and 35 points in 71 games this season. This led to his being selected in the third round of the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in 78th place by the Calgary Flames . In the junior leagues he stayed for two more years and in the 2009/10 season he was team captain of the Vancouver Giants when the team made it to the third play-off round but had to admit defeat to the Tri-City Americans . Following the departure Bouma was in the AHL - farm team of the Calgary Flames to Abbotsford sent and completed five play-off games for the Abbotsford Heat . After a loss in the sixth game against Hamilton, the Heat was eliminated from the play-offs.

In the 2010/11 AHL season he rose to become a regular at the Abbotsford Heat. He had a good season and in the first 49 games he scored 11 times in the opposing goal. Bouma is best known for his physically strong game. These qualities earned him his first appointment to the Calgary Flames squad on February 3, 2011. Two nights later he made his debut for the Flames against the Los Angeles Kings . Bouma's first point came with an assist on February 7, when he put Mikael Backlund on for a goal against the Chicago Blackhawks .

After being out for almost the entire 2012/13 season due to a tear in the anterior cruciate ligament and collateral ligament in October 2012, he was back in the Flames' squad at the beginning of the 2013/14 season . He was a member of this until the end of the 2016/17 season before moving to the Chicago Blackhawks as a free agent in July 2017 . There he fulfilled a one-year contract, which was not extended in summer 2018. Bouma then moved to Europe for the first time when he joined Genève-Servette HC from the Swiss National League in August 2018 . In September 2018 he suffered a knee injury and was out until the end of the season.

In September 2019, he took part in the Los Angeles Kings training camp , but received no contract and was then hired by the Ontario Reign , their farm team.

Achievements and Awards

• 2007 Memorial Cup win with the Vancouver Giants

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2005/06	Vancouver Giants	WHL		5	1	3	4th	0		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Vancouver Giants	WHL		49	3	5	8th	31		22nd	3	3	6th	12
2007/08	Vancouver Giants	WHL		71	12	23	35	93		10	0	1	1	8th
2008/09	Vancouver Giants	WHL		48	9	16	25th	116		17th	7th	5	12	30th
2009/10	Vancouver Giants	WHL		57	14th	29	43	134		16	4th	13	17th	47
2009/10	Abbotsford Heat	AHL		-	-	-	-	-		5	1	0	1	2
2010/11	Abbotsford Heat	AHL		61	12	8th	20th	53		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Calgary Flames	NHL		16	0	1	1	2		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Abbotsford Heat	AHL		31	3	3	6th	53		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Calgary Flames	NHL		27	1	2	3	11		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Abbotsford Heat	AHL		3	1	0	1	2		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Calgary Flames	NHL		78	5	10	15th	41		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Calgary Flames	NHL		78	16	18th	34	54		2	0	0	0	2
2015/16	Calgary Flames	NHL		44	2	5	7th	31		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Calgary Flames	NHL		61	3	4th	7th	35		3	0	0	0	2
2017/18	Rockford IceHogs	AHL		20th	7th	7th	14th	10		13	1	1	2	12
2017/18	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		53	3	6th	9	36		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Genève-Servette HC	AHL		3	0	2	2	2		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Ontario Reign	AHL		57	10	10	20th	63		-	-	-	-	-
WHL overall				230	39	76	115	374		65	14th	22nd	36	97
AHL total				172	33	28	61	181		18th	2	1	3	14th
NHL overall				357	30th	46	76	210		5	0	0	0	4th

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

• Lance Bouma in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
• Lance Bouma at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Flett, Cory and Watts, Jessie (Eds.): 2009-10 WHL Guide . Western Hockey League,, p. 140.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Lance Bouma player card . Calgary Flames Hockey Club. Retrieved September 12, 2011.
3. ↑ A LOOK BACK: Memorial Cup 2007 - Vancouver Giants. In: vancouvergiants.com. May 24, 2013, accessed December 20, 2017 . 
4. ^ Lance Bouma draft prospect card . National Hockey League. Retrieved September 12, 2011.
5. ^ Draft notebook . In: Victoria Times-Columnist . June 22, 2008. Archived from the original on November 9, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 12, 2011. 
6. ^ Tri-City down Vancouver to reach first ever WHL final . The Sports Network. April 26, 2010. Retrieved September 12, 2011.
7. ↑ Cam Tucker: Lance Bouma jumps from Heat to Flames . In: Abbotsford Times . February 4, 2011. Archived from the original on March 11, 2012. Retrieved on September 12, 2011.
8. ↑ Cam Tucker: "A dream come true" for Abbotsford Heat's Lance Bouma . In: Abbotsford Times . February 4, 2011. Archived from the original on July 16, 2012. Retrieved on September 12, 2011.
9. ^ Scott Cruickshank: Bouma finds debut memories last a lifetime . In: Calgary Herald . February 6, 2011. Archived from the original on January 18, 2013. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 12, 2011. 
10. ↑ Steve MacFarlane: Flames into playoff berth . In: Calgary Sun . February 8, 2011. Retrieved September 12, 2011.
11. ↑ calgarysun.com: "Bouma injured in Abbotsford" ( Memento of October 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (English, October 24, 2012, accessed on October 20, 2013)
12. ↑ Geneva-Servette: Bouma also injured. In: hockeyfans.ch. September 25, 2018, accessed October 9, 2019 . 
13. ↑ After several months of injury: Geneva wing Lance Bouma back in training! In: sport.ch. February 21, 2019, accessed October 9, 2019 .