EHM The Blue Line

Hey everyone, I'm new to The Blue Line community. I just had a question for everyone, how many of you coach the games yourself, either in regular season or post-season. Do you set your own tactics/lines or let your coach do that? I'm just wondering how involved everyone gets with tactics/lines/coaching and how successful they've become doing it that way.

Welcome

I do everything on my own on my NHL team, I also run my farm team where I only set the lines and practice and let the coach do everything else.
But my main focus is on the NHL and I just coach the AHL affiliate to control ice time and practice of my youngsters hence I don't care much about results there.

Sometimes when I'm down or up in the third by a huge margin I change the lines a little bit, give my 4th line guys some PP time and stuff like that, that's why I prefer to have full control, just don't trust my coach to do it as I want it to be done

First of all, welcome to TBL!

I do everything with my NHL team. For the AHL team, they aren't supposed to be under my control, so i let the AI do its job, even if it's sometimes frustrating

For the success part, well... I'm the Blues, and after an awful first season (remember it's the Blues! ) passed to rebuild, i'm doing good in my second season. I'm midway of the season, heading the Central Division with 4 rookies in the team and tons of prospects waiting to be signed. My plan was just to make the playoffs for this season, but i won't complain if i can grab a division title

Great, thanks for the responses and the welcomes guys. When you're coaching/viewing the game(s), do you have it set to Full, extended, or key only?

Personnally, i play with extended highlights. You have a bigger feeling about your team by viewing the full game, but it takes 1h15-1h30 to manage just one game...so it's weeks and months to manage a single season!

IMO, you don't see enough stuff with key only. Goals and penalties, nothing more. Not enough (at least for me) to see what's going right/wrong on the ice and make the needed tweaks and adjustments.

Extended highlights takes 10-15 minutes to manage a game and allows you to see a good part of the action. The best compromise, according to me.

I don't use any highlights personally, I don't have the time for this, it would take me probably a whole real life season to advance one season in the game. Pre-season takes me already about one week in real life, 1-2 hours per day. I just set the clock to medium and no text commentary at all, and I intervene when I see the need to do so, means I react to players taking too many penalties, having bad ratings, or some 3rd/4th line guys being on fire (I might give them some PP time then).
I read match reports mostly, at least I skip through them to find certain patterns, for instance when a defenceman takes way too many hooking penalties I'd consider chaning his gap control and things like that.