Guy Boucher likes this sort of lineup tinkering with his bottom end guys, or at least he likes this little showboating, what a character guy, gotta get him in, backwash.

He did same with Chris Neil in the previous series, and with Colin White last game.  Neither played enough to work up a sweat, and Ott, being broke, they probably did not even bother washing their uniforms after the games to save a few coins.

Pretty sure Boucher knows that Anderson has to be lights out for Ott to win, and maybe Karlsson might wanna show up, that wouldn't hurt the cause either.

Ott will play lockdown hockey to the max this evening.  Game 7s are more often than not quite dull affairs, especially in the salary cap era where both teams play a roster dominated by 4th-line guys who normally can't hit the side of a barn from 10'.