Roughriders and Capitals rematch in finals

 

The DC Capitals and Rocky Mountain Roughriders will faceoff tomorrow in the NAPHL playoffs championship. The DC Capitals finished tied for first place but lost the regular season title because San Jose beat them earlier in the year. Rocky Mountain finished in seventh place in the NAPHL regular season standings, but have made their way stunning the competition to the championship game. 


DC has gone undefeated after defeating Lansing Capitals 2-1, Rocky Mountain Roughriders 2-0, and Detroit Falcons 2-1, and rolling over Wenatchee Jr. Wild in the semifinals by a 5-2 score. 


Rocky Mountain's only loss was the 2-0 defeat coming at the hands of the DC Capitals, but they went on to defeat the Falcons 4-3 in a shootout, Lansing Capitals 3-1, and the Roughriders cooled down the red-hot Jr. Ice 2-1 in a closely contested shootout in the semifinals.


These two teams met only once during the regular season, the Roughriders won 5-4 after a shootout, but that was in October of 2010. The DC Capitals shut out the Roughriders in a 2-0 contest a day ago in the NAPHL playoffs, but both with rematch for the second NAPHL playoffs championship. Last year, the California Titans defeated Omaha AAA for the U18 NAPHL playoff championship, after California won the regular season title.