TORONTO -- The Toronto Maple Leafs are feeling good about themselves after winning two games in a row.The Vancouver Canucks are frustrated with their inability to score goals, let alone win games.The young Maple Leafs will try to keep the good times rolling when they play the Canucks on Saturday night at the Air Canada Centre after they defeated the Buffalo Sabres 2-1 on Thursday for their first road win of the season.The Canucks (4-6-1) lost 1-0 to the Ottawa Senators on Thursday and have been shut out in four of their past five games. They have lost six in a row in regulation time and seven straight dating to an Oct. 22 shootout loss to the Los Angeles Kings. They have scored a league-low 17 goals in 11 games.They feel that were getting chances, were just not scoring, Canucks coach Willie Desjardins said Friday when asked how his team is handling the slump. Theyve played the game long enough that they know they will eventually come. If youre playing poorly its tough. Its hard, too, when youve played well and you havent got anything. ... Our goaltenders have played well, both of them.Right now were getting in front of the net, were getting to those rebounds but we cant find a way to score, Canucks left winger Daniel Sedin said. But we have to stay positive. Usually when you go through these stretches youre not playing very well but we are playing well and creating enough chances to score some goals and thats the frustrating part. I feel we could have won a few of those game.The Maple Leafs (4-4-3), meanwhile, are gaining confidence after winning in Buffalo for the first time since Jan. 29, 2013, when they won in overtime.Mitch Marner had the first two-goal game in the NHL. He has been playing on a line with Tyler Bozak and James van Riemsdyk.We werent happy with our last couple of games, Marner said. We were giving up too many chances and (Thursday) we just wanted to play sound defensively and get back hard and help the D out. We knew if we played hard D wed get the chances on offense and luckily it happened.Mitch had a real good game and then hadnt been as good, Bozak had been sick and James wasnt skating as good, Maple Leafs coach Mike Babcock said, When they got skating they were better. Everybody got cautious. When you havent done a ton of winning and youre young, you get cautious and you start backing up instead of -- the game is way more fun when youre playing with the puck in the offensive zone. Well get that figured out over time as we learn how to win.A key to the win Thursday was the goaltending of Frederik Andersen. He made 42 saves against the Sabres after stopping 44 shots in a 3-2 overtime win over the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday.Hes gotten his confidence, obviously, Babcock said. 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Wholesale Sabres Jerseys . -- Jimmie Johnson held off a teammate, passed a pair of Hall of Famers, and dominated once more at Dover. (STATS) -- North Carolina Central and Grambling State just missed out on playing in last seasons inaugural Celebration Bowl. They made sure that didnt happen again this year.The 16th-ranked Tigers take on the No. 20 Eagles at the Georgia Dome on Saturday in a matchup of the Southwestern Athletic Conference and Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference champions.Grambling State won all nine of its conference games last season before being denied an appearance in the Celebration Bowl when it lost 49-21 to Alcorn State in the SWAC title game. The Tigers again went 9-0 in conference play in 2016, but this time rallied from a 17-0 halftime deficit to beat the Braves 27-20 for the SWAC championship Dec. 3.North Carolina Central shared the MEAC title last season with North Carolina A&T and Bethune-Cookman, but N.C. A&T won the tiebreaker and went on to beat Alcorn State 41-34 in the Celebration Bowl. The Eagles and Aggies met in a winner-take-all season finale last month, with North Carolina Central rolling to a 42-21 victory to claim the MEAC championship.We got one more to go, said North Carolina Centrals Jerry Mack, who was named MEAC coach of the year and finished sixth in the voting for the STATS FCS Eddie Robinson Award as FCS Coach of the Year. We got an opportunity to play for potentially a black college national championship. ... So the tradition and the legacy isnt over with yet.North Carolina Central (9-2) does most of its damage through the air. The Eagles led the MEAC with 221.3 passing yards per game behind Malcolm Bell, who finished second in the league with 2,191 yards, first with 16 passing touchdowns and tied for second with nine rushing scores in being named first-team all-conference.He was joined on the first team byy LaVontis Smith, who was second in the MEAC with 646 receiving yards and tied for fifth with five TD catches.ddddddddddddGrambling State (10-1) also has a star quarterback in DeVante Kincade, who was named the SWAC offensive player of the year. Tackle Donovan McCray was the defensive player of the year and Broderick Fobbs took home coach of the year honors.Kincade led the SWAC in passing efficiency (173.5), completion percentage (65.4), passing yards (2,870) and touchdown passes (30) while throwing just three interceptions. All-SWAC first-team selection Chad Williams topped the conference in catches (86) and receiving yards (1,294) and was second in TD receptions (10).The Tigers are also strong on the ground behind Jestin Kelly (808 yards, eight TDs) and all-conference first-team member Martez Carter (782, nine).Grambling State has won 10 in a row since losing its opener at FBS opponent Arizona, a game in which the Tigers led 21-3 at halftime. North Carolina Central enters on a nine-game winning streak following season-opening road defeats to FBS schools Duke and Western Michigan.This is two titans clashing, and two really good coaching staffs and two really good programs that are doing an exceptional job in this college football atmosphere, said Fobbs, who finished ninth in the voting for the STATS FCS Eddie Robinson Award.This is huge for us and for FCS football and the fact that there are a lot of institutions that would like to be here. Even other institutions that are playing in the national playoffs. They would like to be in a situation where they are able to play in a game like such. ' ' '