2022 Report Card: Greg McKegg

Expectations

Prior to the March 21 trade deadline, the New York Rangers spent large swaths of the 2021-22 season icing lineups thin on forward depth, especially whenever one or more regulars were injured. Perhaps the biggest poster child for that dearth of depth was fringe-NHL forward Greg McKegg, who, after signing a one-year, two-way deal as a free agent, played through his second stint on Broadway after a forgettable 53-game episode in 2019-20.

McKegg, who just turned 30 in June, is obviously not someone NHL teams should count on for offensive production. As a borderline NHLer, the idea is that at most, when not in the minors, he would play on a team’s fourth line, particularly when…