What's up with Riga?

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As you can see, the Riga Reign team is having weird times for the past couple of weeks, mainly because of their GM. Benjamin Zeptenbergs arrived to the VHL scene from Bratislava with the mind this thing is not going to be harder than juniors. Seems like he was wrong: starting from this miscalculation to not selling guys at the time for making a proper rebuild. After all of these actions, Riga ended up being a somewhat decent team that can even hand an L to contenders without even a relevant goalie. That's why we saw another trade yesterday, where Zep took still decent goalie Kopralkov so we could imagine that he's trying to compete. However, he stated he's just jumping ships between competing and rebuilding, which is even more weird than we could think. So what he's actually going to do? There are only two options:

 

1. Compete with giving up another valuable pick for a rental. Sounds stupid, but it makes sense. He already screwed up the whole rebuilding process with Petenis trade so why no just pull a wildcard and get at least Gowecny? It will make things more interesting in Europe, that's for sure. 

 

2. Selling players for rebuild. It's not really too late for doing it, There still are guys who can be traded for the first round pick and Benjamin could consider this option as well. 

 

 

So what he's going to do? Compete or rebuild? Will he finally make up his mind and stick to one plan, not 5 at the same time? Stay tuned and you will find all answers...

 

 

...or not. 

 

 

1 TPE goes to Krīgars.