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After recovering from broken leg, Flames’ Bouma (lower body) out for ‘quite a bit of time’

Mark Giordano, Nate Thompson, Francois Beauchemin

Mark Giordano, Nate Thompson, Francois Beauchemin

AP

The 2015-16 campaign is one Lance Bouma will probably want to forget.

Calgary’s hard-nosed energy guy, Bouma -- who’s already missed two months this season with a broken leg -- will now be sidelined for “a few weeks” with a lower-body injury, per Flames head coach Bob Hartley.

Bouma, 25, is coming off a solid ’14-15 campaign in which he posted career-highs in goals (16), assists (18) and points (34), earning himself a three-year, $6.6 million contract extension in July.

Year one of that extension was derailed before it ever got started, though.

Bouma’s leg was broken on a Ryan Reaves hit in mid-October, an injury that kept him out of the Calgary lineup until Dec. 22. He managed to play in eight games before getting hurt again, scoring his first goal of the year in a 3-1 win over Tampa Bay last week.

As mentioned above, Bouma is a valuable grinder for the Flames. He’s firmly entrenched as a top-nine forward and finished seventh in the NHL in hits last year, with 264.