Lance Bouma had a bad season. That much is indisputable. It wasn't entirely his fault, though; multiple freak injuries wiped out nearly half of it. When he was able to play, he only averaged 12:02 a game, his lowest totals since his rookie season. He scored two goals, one of which was an empty netter, and had seven points total.
It wasn't a great year by any standards, but just how bad it was got compounded by it being the first year of Bouma's three-year, $2.2 million annual average value deal. Regardless of external factors that kept Bouma from succeeding - of which injuries were definitely a part - seven points from a player with a cap hit north of $2 million just isn't good enough.