What type of coach are you?

[Axeshun]

For those of you who use manual line changes, how do you like to utilize your lines?

Do you consistently roll four lines? All in a row? Do you only put out your checkers for a spark? Do you like to use a specific line more than usual against a certain team? Do you shorten your bench in the later periods?

Or do you just let the CPU take care of it all?

[onlybygrace]

1st liners will see about 18-21 minutes per game...2nd liners about 15, 3rd liners about 12 or so...4th line about will only see about 6 shifts a game.

And yes, the bench gets short if its late in a game...thankfully I have a very effective top three lines.

[Schmackity]

I use adjusted sliders so i cant rely on the computer to change my lines at all.

I usually roll all 4 lines. I tend to roll my top 2 lines more often. It took a little bit of work but I'm so good at it now that at the end of games I can look at Time on Ice for all my players and it works out pretty well that my best two players (Datsyuk and Zetterberg) as well as my top 3-4 defensemen are the leaders in time on ice with the 4th liners that dont provide much with the least amount.

I do bring in the 4th line to occassionally drop the gloves too Even though there really isn't any sort of momentum factors installed in the game, I like to pretend there is and try to be more offensive there after.

[SCARFACE909]

I mostly play online sometimes play versus and i would like to play my most defensive sound line against the other teams top lines but you never know exactly when they change out there which makes it hard and really you can defend and score with any line considering the attribute effect slider doesn't seem all the way up for online which it should be.

[jsquigg]

I roll four lines during active play but pick out the best line that is fresh during stoppages.

[soapkiller]

I usually roll 1-2-3-1-4 so it's pretty even while still giving my best players the most time. Lots of times people will get less time but will work themselves tired really fast through time in the D zone so that can be a disadvantage.

[Tikker]

depends who i'm playing

I tend to put certain types of players on lines

like, Line 1 is speed line

line 2 is the big banger line

line 3 is defensive shutdown line

line 4 is the young guns line

I just try to get good matchups with my lines

[bill2451]

I usually try to run lines 1, 2, then 3 or 4 depending on the situation (3 is my hard hitting defensive line with a good face off center, 4 is my young gun line with a lot of raw talent), and rinse and repeat... of course, I use high fatigue slow recovery sliders, so a lot of times I have to roll with 4 lines, even if its just a quick 30 second shift w/ my 4th liners

I also like to run out my 1st line as often as possible on stoppages in the offensive zone because Drury is a monster in the faceoff circle (mid 90 faceoff rating). Then I try to bring my 3rd line in for defensive draws (Dubinsky is 2nd best on my team in the mid 80's), with my 1st line as my second choice in those situations... So it usually breaks down where I just end up trying to mix and match and find fresh legs. The goal being to get my 3rd and 4th lines on just long enough to give my 1st and 2nd liners a blow (unless we're in a position where we need defense over offense, in that case i'll run lines 1 and 3 more often) and then run my top 2 lines out for full shifts