When not playing with Backlund, who, let's face it, makes everyone he plays with a lot better:
226 Games, 11 goals, 22 assists; (averaging about -4% CF%Rel over the past 4 seasons) that's pretty average/below-average 4th line production.
Let's not pretend he's a Matt Stajan or something, who is an above average 4th liner (in the same amount of games over the past three seasons is almost doubling his point totals and has good possession numbers).
Honestly not having Bouma on this team opens up a slot for some more competition, and youth to move up. Also gets rid of 1/2 of our most egregious possession players in one off-season