Please.  Dropping some no-name 4th-liner in favour of some prospect, like, wow, Boucher is really putting his job on the line, eh.  What bravado.

In other words, it's a big who cares.  Yeah, maybe White pulls another Jason Spezza, gets a goal and an assist, Ott catches lightning in a bottle as they did back way back when, but it's essentially a nothing move by the coach.  Got nothing to lose.

If he scores or has a solid game, gets some chances, Boucher looks like a genius, which he certainly is not, and if White is invisible, well, you sat out a 4th-liner.  It's not like White is going in for Hoffman now is it.

Playing the distraction game, trying to get Pit and its players thinking.  Worth a shot, I guess, especially if your hat is out of rabbits.