Milan Gajic

Class:
Senior
Position:
F
Height:
6-0
Weight:
200
Hometown:
Burnaby, B.C.
S/C:
R
NHL:
ATL

Senior (2004-05)... Earned Alton D. Simms Trophy as U-M's most improved player ... Set career highs in games played (42), goals (20), points (39), power-play goals (9) and tied plus/minus (+4) ... Matched career high with four points (2-2-4) vs. Notre Dame (March 11) ... Tied single-game career best of two goals on three occassions (vs. Boston University on Oct. 9, vs. Notre Dame on March 11, vs. Ohio State on March 19). Had seven career two-goal games ... Achieved season-high two assists five times (vs. St. Lawrence on Oct. 16, vs. Lake Superior State on Oct. 23, vs. Bowling Green on Dec. 10, vs. Western Michigan on Jan. 7, vs. Notre Dame on March 11) ... Notched a career-best two power-play goals against Ohio State (March 19) ... Had season-best five-game point streak, 4-2-6, (Jan. 15-29). Also had four-game point streak, 2-5-7, (Oct. 16-29) and three-game point streak, 1-4-5, (Dec. 10-29) ... Had career-best 13 multi-point games on the season and ended career with 33 ... Had season-best +3 rating vs. Notre Dame (March 11) ... Earned 100th career point with 1-1-2 at WMU (Jan. 8) ... Scored 50th career goal with first of two tallies vs. Notre Dame (March 11) ... Notched 50th career assist vs. Notre Dame (Dec. 3) ... Scored U-M's first goal of the season, which gave the class of 2005 the first goal of the season for all four of its years (Jason Ryznar Oct. 6, 2001, Eric Werner Oct. 10, 2002, Dwight Helminen Oct. 4, 2003) ... G.L. Teitelbaum Scholarship for Men's Ice Hockey.

Junior (2003-04)... Tied for team lead with six power-play goals and was third on the team in power-play scoring with 6-10-16 totals ... Had career-best nine-game point streak, 6-9-15, (Dec. 28-Feb. 7) and had 21 points, 9-12-21, while scoring in 12 of 13 games from Dec. 28-Feb. 21 ... Had career best 20 assists in 40 games ... Became the first Wolverine in 128 games to notch four assists in a game with his four-helper outing against Western Michigan (Jan. 24) ... Went on a tear during the second half of the season, producing 25 of his 33 points after the Great Lakes Invitational ... Scored game-tying goal at Nebraska-Omaha (Dec. 13) for his first road tally since the 2001-02 season against Lake Superior State (Jan. 14, 2002). He finished with 5-8-13 totals on the road ... Appeared in his 100th game in the Maize and Blue against LSSU (Jan. 31) ... Roy H. and Helen M. Ziegler Scholarship for Men's Ice Hockey.

Sophomore (2002-03)... Scored all of his goals (11) at Yost Ice Arena, where he was the leading goal scorer ... Recorded a career-best three game-winning goals ... Scored a career-high two goals on two occasions (vs. FSU on Jan. 31, vs. Northern Michigan on Feb. 8) ... Season-high three points on two goals, including game-winner, and an assist vs. Ferris State (Jan. 31) ... Recorded a season-high three-game point streak with 1-2-3 from Dec. 28-Jan. 4 ... Missed two games (Nov. 8-9) with an academically-induced suspension ... Harry and Ruth MacDuff Scholarship for Ice Hockey.

Freshman (2001-02)... Posted three straight multi-point efforts as part of a season-high three-game point and assist streak, 2-4–6, (Dec. 28-Jan. 4) ... Recorded the first multi-goal and multi-point game of his career with a season-high 2-1–3 against Ferris State (Dec. 1). Also tallied 2-1–3 vs. Nebraska-Omaha (Feb. 9) ... Notched season-best two helpers at Notre Dame (Jan. 5) ... Notched two game-winning goals including one against St. Cloud State (March 22) in the NCAA West Regional ... Scored first collegiate goal, a power-play marker, at Alaska Fairbanks (Nov. 2) ... Tallied first career point with an assist in 6-3 win over No. 6 Providence in the semifinals of the Maverick Stampede (Oct. 12).

Club/Junior Team... Played for the Burnaby Bulldogs of the British Columbia Hockey League from 1998-2001 ... Scored 46 goals and added 52 assists for 98 points during the 2000-01 season ... A member of the 2000-01 Coastal Conference First All-Star team ... Finished third in the BCHL for scoring ... Joined the Bulldogs in 1998-99 as an original member of the club ... Recorded 59 points in 1998-99, followed by an 81-point effort in 1999-2000 ... Skated for the Merritt Centennials during the 1997-98 campaign, posting 20 points in 50 games.

Personal... Enrolled in the Division of Kinesiology, majoring in sport management and communication ... Graduated from Burnaby Central High School (1999) ... Drafted in the fourth round (No. 112 overall) by the Atlanta Thrashers in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft.