SUNRISE, Fla. — Troy Stecher called his shot.

Sort of.

“I told (Easton) Cowan and (Nick) Robertson I was gonna get one tonight, and actually did,” the Toronto Maple Leafs’ increasingly important waiver pickup said after Tuesday’s 4-1 win over the Florida Panthers.

Then Stecher smirked.

“The problem is, I tell myself that every game — or tell somebody that.”

Cowan and Robertson laughed at Stecher’s bold pre-game prediction but came over to him during the TV timeout and told him he was bang-on.

The buzzy depth defenceman scores in about four per cent of his NHL games, so his attempt to speak goals into reality, he says, is a fake-it-till-you-make-it type mindset.

“You know, like: Give me the puck, I’m gonna score. And then most often, I’m going glass and out. So, it’s good to score to

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