lightsout

Ok I support bringing kids to games but maybe not a newborn to an arena. I mean it can get loud as fug.

I'm absolutely sick that I have to pay Bally money so I can watch the season. Paying monthly just in case something switches mid season

And I forgot to add, you have 60 minutes of regulation time. Your line minutes will be something like this 1st line: 15-22 min 2nd line: 15-18 min 3rd line: 14-17 min 4th line: 13-17 min Usually anyway. I mean changes happen every 45 ish seconds, depending on stoppages and the other teams change and whether you're filling a top guy on a bottom line for more minutes out of him or not. It's an art for sure to get it right. You want your top 6 guys on those first two lines to get as much time on ice as possible but you have a long season and don't need to wear them out.

So the short answer is that you want your talent spread but not so spread that they're having to single handedly carry their line. So your top line is generally where you want you star power. The most deadly guy you have paired with two great support pieces that work well together and play off of each other. A lot of free styling is common with first liners, less set up and more flow. Your second line is your first line but how it changes will depend on your personnel. Maybe these are grindy guys, maybe this is a mix and match of some physicality and some great individual stick skills. Still some freedom here, but will play the role of maintaining the puck in the other teams end for as long as possible. 3rd liners are your savvy tweeners. They're good defensively but can score too. They're there to fill and not screw up. You're not depending on them to be goal scorers, but you expect them to be good +/- guys. 4th liners are grinders/new guys/don't fit in the other three lines neatly. Usually just get ice time so everybody can rest, but there can be some heroes here. None of the above is hard line truth, but it's a decent starting point of understanding. Teams generally want will start with first or second line, or even a combination of the two depending on the team they're playing and matchups. But as the game progresses, you want to time your changes where your top 6 is out there with their bottom 6. Your strongest talent vs their weakest. D pairings (as each team will have two defensemen on the ice at a time) run 3 each team. So a top pair, mid pair and bottom pair. +/- as I mentioned above is basically a measure of contribution. Your team score while you're on the ice? You get one point in the +. Your team gives up a goal while you're on the ice? You get one point in the -. Guys with crazy low +/- tend to be bottom 6 players so if you got a top 6 guy with like -15, you have problems as a team.

Also, most importantly, we used to have a thing called the Storm Squad and that is no more. But seriously, this team is amazing. Well ran (Dundon is the kind of owner Tepper wishes he was) and well coached (Brindy is the coach half the league would kill for). Players are all team-first guys who don't make excuses. If we can just get the breaks to fall our way come playoff time, we will have a Cup. Roster is too good not to.

Absolutely spot on. Reich needs to let Brown do the play calling while Frazier gives input and assists Reich with personnel and management of the game. Absolutely zero reason to have this cluster fug

I love women. I would never disparage a woman in sports due to her being a woman because that's stupid. But fug Nicole Tepper. I said what I said.

You know, im taking it as a sign from God that my Hulu account for some reason is giving me Indy locals. I can watch a good game.

I'm not. My TV Hulu is apparently being weird. Got it on my phone. Lol

Wait....is the game not on here? It's Simpsons on Fox.

We absolutely have a shotgun problem. Maybe we do them as our gate gifts. Last fan to off themselves gets a free shirsey

Bryce will finally be able to play in a real offense sort of, and he'll do decent for a quarter and a half before throwing a pick and then Reich shuts it down, back to same ol poo.

The greed of the services since cord cutting went from what us poors did to have entertainment options without dishing out on premium cable packages is just astounding. Sinclair really fuged us all over. That's the first and only takeaway for me in all this. Money grab by all parties since then. League needs to step in and look out for fans. And since the league is all about bottom line ultimately, that ain't happening

If anybody here's hoping for a firing, you're missing the totality of the circumstances of exactly how and why we're fuged as we are. Tepper won't fire himself. That's what is needed. Him firing his newly hired coach one month into the season will absolutely not make getting a job here enticing. We don't have the history that, say, Dallas does where dudes will absolutely go there and suffer Jerry because it's the Dallas Cowboys.

Damn gonna drop my government name and everything

Move the team to McAdenville and call them the Lights. At least then people will be mistaken and show up expecting something fun to look at.

This team has a choice. You turn the offense loose with Bryce or you start Dalton. This half measure of trotting out Bryce with his My First Playbook by Fisher Price is just not cutting it.

99.52 fantasy points off of this game thanks to the garbage yards by Howell at the end. And it's fuging Thursday. One week closer to the money, baby! I'm so sorry @Dex

Usually a good rule but my thought was the bears would be wildly inconsistent, DJ would get his because Fields is at least as good as what DJ had throwing to him here and if he wasn't destroying, Kmet makes up for it. And honestly, any middle of the pack QB and up will be serviceable in fantasy. So having Fields is a solid option.

Yes he is. 49 points for me in my Sleeper league. I had a projected 38% chance to win before this game tonight. Between him and Kmet and Howell, I'm now at 72% lol

DJ was always going to be this. fuging shame our piece of poo organization couldn't be the benefactors of his talent.

Gotta win, man. Look at the Canes. Sustained success leads to fans showing up and being loud and excited to go. 2015 was an anomaly, but showed what our franchise could have if they sustained that NFC contender state of play. We all hated Fox and Ron...but they at least had the mindset that Carolinians could respect. Tough, nose to the grindstone type of guys. Lead to us having hope. Now we have Reich and co. And Thomas Brown has that "it" but he's being handcuffed. Let that man run the offense dammit.

A Rivera and Sam Howell led offense looks miles better than our first overall pick, Heisman winning QB and offensive juggernaut staff led offense. Jesus fug.

I am now in a position of watching games to root for my fantasy players. I'm not taking the living room tv from my kids to watch the Panthers suck and get pissed off. We're either watching Toy Story for the 6000th time or I'll find out which game Sunday I care to watch, if any. I'm not sure I have the heart to dump my fandom for another team. But at least watching good games will suck less than watching our JUCO team posing as an NFL team will be less frustrating. That's good enough for me.

Head Coaches are managers. They manage personnel and time. No different in football. Stay on the headset with your coordinators, stay on top of the play clock and game clock and reps guys are getting, stay on top of injuries and protect your guys from themselves. Let the guys you appointed to roles fulfill the duties of those roles. You don't need your hands in it to ensure it'll be good. Don't like what you see from Brown calling plays? Adjust at half, talk it over during film study and game planning, figure poo out. But Reich has got to see his way of running the offense is the weakest poo the league has right now. If he doesn't, his ego is a massive fuging problem.