Lance Bouma
Lance Bouma (born 25 March 1990 in Provost, Alberta ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player standing since 2009 with the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League contract.
Career
In the Western Hockey League Bantam Draft 2005 Vancouver Giants used their second vote for the rights to Lance Bouma purchase. In the season 2005/ 06 he played almost the entire season in the Rural Alberta Midget Hockey League. Even as a 15 -year-old brought him the Vancouver Giants in the WHL, and let him complete his first jobs there. In five games he won with a goal and three assists. In the season 2006/ 07 he made the jump to the core team of the Vancouver Giants. Bouma came in 49 games of the regular season and 22 playoff games available for use. In the play-offs, the Giants failed until the seventh final match at the Medicine Hat Tigers and missed it, to win the President's Cup. Nevertheless, the team qualified as the host team for the Memorial Cup in 2007 and took in the final successful rematch at the Medicine Hat Tigers. In the same year he also played for the team Alberta at the Canada Games 2007, where he participated in the hockey tournament. Bouma scored two goals and the team finished the championship in fourth place.
In the 2007 /08 season Bouma presented with twelve gates, and 35 points in 71 games this season a new career record. This meant that he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 2008 in the third round to 78th place by the Calgary Flames. In the junior leagues he remained two years and in the 2009/10 season he was team captain of the Vancouver Giants, when the team made it into the third play-off round abolished, but was defeated by the Tri -City Americans. After leaving Bouma was sent to the AHL farm team of the Calgary Flames to Abbotsford and completed five play-off games for the Abbotsford Heat. He scored a goal against the Hamilton Bulldogs in the second play-off round. After a defeat in the sixth game against Hamilton the Heat of the play-offs dropped out.
In the AHL season 2010/11 he went on in the Abbotsford Heat team regular. He completed a good season and in the first 49 games, he hit eleven times into the opposing goal. Bouma is best known for his physically strong game. These qualities brought him on February 3, 2011, his first appointment to the cadre of the Calgary Flames. Two nights later, he made his debut for the Flames against the Los Angeles Kings. His first point Bouma posted on February 7, with an assist as he hung up Mikael Backlund for a goal against the Chicago Blackhawks.
After it turned out through a tear of anterior cruciate ligament and collateral ligament in October 2012 for almost the complete 2012/13 season, he stands at the beginning of the season 2013/14 back in the squad of the Flames.
Awards and achievements
- 2007 Memorial Cup win with Vancouver Giants
Career Stats
( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )