Greg McKegg

Greg McKegg
Date of birth	17th June 1992
place of birth	St. Thomas , Ontario , Canada
size	183 cm
Weight	87 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2010 , 3rd round, 62nd position Toronto Maple Leafs
Career stations
2008–2012	Erie Otters
2012	London Knights
2010-2015	Toronto Marlies
2014-2015	Toronto Maple Leafs
2015-2017	Florida panthers
2017	Tampa Bay Lightning
2017-2018	Pittsburgh Penguins Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins
2018-2019	Carolina Hurricanes Charlotte Checkers
since 2019	New York Rangers

Greg McKegg (born June 17, 1992 in St. Thomas , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the New York Rangers in the National Hockey League since July 2019 and plays there on the position of the center .

Career

youth

Greg McKegg was born into a family of ice hockey in St. Thomas. His father played for the Sudbury Wolves and at the University of Windsor , while his uncle, Lou Fontinato , made it into the professional field and played over 500 games for the New York Rangers and the Canadiens de Montréal in the National Hockey League ( NHL). In his youth, McKegg played for the Elgin Middlesex Chiefs and the St. Thomas Stars , among others , before he was selected in the 2008 Priority Selection of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) in second position by the Erie Otters . Thus, the center ran at the beginning of the 2008/09 season for the Otters in the OHL and came there as a rookie on 18 points scorer in 64 games. He also represented his home country internationally for the first time when he won the gold medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2009 with the U17s from Canada . In the following season 2009/10, his draft year, the Canadian increased his personal statistics significantly to 85 points in 67 games, so that he represented Canada at the U18 World Cup in 2010 and then in the NHL Entry Draft 2010 in 62nd position the Toronto Maple Leafs was selected.

After another year in the OHL, in which he had led the Otters as team captain , the Maple Leafs equipped him with an entry contract in April 2011 and then sent him to their farm team , the Toronto Marlies , in the American Hockey League for two assignments (AHL). In the subsequent pre-season, McKegg could not earn a place in the AHL squad, so he returned to the OHL for another season. However, he only spent this in Erie until January 2012, when he was given to the London Knights in an exchange deal comprising several players and draft options . With the Knights, the center forward won the playoffs for the J. Ross Robertson Cup at the end of the season and thus also took part in the Memorial Cup , in the final of which, however, the team was subject to the Cataractes de Shawinigan .

NHL

McKegg then moved permanently to the organization of the Maple Leafs and spent the 2012/13 season completely with the Marlies in the AHL, where he scored 23 points in 61 games. With a more than doubled point yield (47 in 65 games), this was also the case for the following season 2013/14, with the exception that the Canadian made his debut for the Maple Leafs in the NHL in February. After another year in Toronto, in which only three more NHL appearances followed, the Maple Leafs gave McKegg, whose contract was expiring anyway, to the Florida Panthers in June 2015 and in return received Zach Hyman and a success-based seven-round suffrage for the NHL Entry Draft 2017 .

The Panthers extended the contract with the attacker by one year in July 2015, in which he was used in 15 NHL games, but still mainly in the AHL, with the Panthers' farm team, the Portland Pirates . After another contract extension by one year in the summer of 2016, McKegg established himself as part of the preparation for the season in the NHL squad of the Florida Panthers and from then on was regularly used there.

In February 2017, however, the attacker should be sent back to the AHL via the waiver , although he was signed by the Tampa Bay Lightning . There he ended the season, but received no further contract, so he joined the Pittsburgh Penguins as a free agent in July 2017 . However, the attacker gave them to the Carolina Hurricanes at the trade deadline in February 2018 and received Josh Jooris in return . He was active there for almost a year and a half before moving to the New York Rangers as a free agent in July 2019 .

Achievements and Awards

• 2009 gold medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge
• 2012 J. Ross Robertson Cup win with the London Knights

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2008/09	Erie Otters	OHL		64	8th	10	18th	-13	22nd		5	2	1	3	-5	4th
2009/10	Erie Otters	OHL		67	37	48	85	+18	32		4th	2	1	3	-4	0
2010/11	Erie Otters	OHL		66	49	32	92	+20	35		7th	4th	1	5	+2	12
2010/11	Toronto Marlies	AHL		2	1	0	1	-1	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Erie Otters	OHL		35	12	22nd	34	-39	32		-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	London Knights	OHL		30th	19th	22nd	41	+5	22nd		15th	4th	7th	11	+5	2
2012	London Knights	Memorial Cup									4th	1	0	1	± 0	4th
2012/13	Toronto Marlies	AHL		61	8th	15th	23	+4	22nd		9	3	3	6th	-2	10
2013/14	Toronto Marlies	AHL		65	19th	28	47	± 0	31		14th	3	3	6th	-5	10
2013/14	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		1	0	0	0	± 0	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Toronto Marlies	AHL		62	22nd	15th	37	+9	39		5	2	0	2	+6	12
2014/15	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		3	0	0	0	± 0	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Portland Pirates	AHL		47	10	13	23	+1	22nd		3	1	0	1	± 0	2
2015/16	Florida panthers	NHL		15th	2	0	2	+1	2		1	0	0	0	± 0	2
2016/17	Springfield Thunderbirds	AHL		7th	2	2	4th	-4	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Florida panthers	NHL		31	3	3	6th	-5	11		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		15th	0	1	1	+2	11		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL		28	5	7th	12	+10	10		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		26th	2	2	4th	-4	8th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Charlotte Checkers	AHL		19th	9	14th	23	+7	4th		8th	1	4th	5	+2	2
2018/19	Charlotte Checkers	AHL		31	6th	17th	23	−5	18th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Carolina Hurricanes	NHL		41	6th	5	11	−2	8th		14th	2	0	2	+1	4th
2019/20	New York Rangers	NHL		53	5	4th	9	−2	17th		3	0	0	0	−3	2
OHL total				262	125	145	270	–9	143		31	12	10	22nd	-2	18th
AHL total				322	82	111	193	+21	148		39	10	10	20th	+1	36
NHL overall				185	18th	15th	33	-10	57		18th	2	0	2	-2	8th

International

Represented Canada to:

• World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2009
• U18 World Cup 2010

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2009	Canada Ontario	WHC			6th	0	1	1		2
2010	Canada	U18 World Cup	7th place		6th	1	6th	7th	+2	4th
Juniors overall					12	1	7th	8th		6th

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

• Player biography on the New York Rangers website
• Greg McKegg at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brian Huddle: Greg McKegg Turning Heads in Leafs Nation. hockeybuzz.com, March 24, 2011, accessed November 2, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Former NHL defenseman Lou Fontinato dead at 84.nhl.com, July 5, 2016, accessed on November 2, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Leafs Sign Greg McKegg. nhl.com, April 6, 2011, accessed November 2, 2016 . 
4. ^ Otters acquire Fox and Donnay from London. ottershockey.com, January 5, 2012, accessed November 2, 2016 . 
5. ^ Florida Panthers Acquire F Greg McKegg. nhl.com, June 19, 2015, accessed November 2, 2016 . 
6. ^ Florida Panthers Agree to Terms with F Greg McKegg. nhl.com, July 8, 2015, accessed November 2, 2016 . 
7. ^ Florida Panthers Sign Forward Greg McKegg to One-Year Contract. nhl.com, June 29, 2016, accessed November 2, 2016 .