Brandon Kaleniecki

Class:
Senior
Position:
F
Height:
5-8
Weight:
195
Hometown:
Livonia, Mich.
S/C:
L

At Michigan... Tied for 22nd on U-M's career forward games played list with 159.

Senior (2005-06)... Alternate Captain ... Academic All-Big Ten Conference ... U-M Athletic Academic Achievement award ... Competed at inaugural NCAA Frozen Four Skills Challenge (April 7) ... CCHA Offensive Player of the Week (Dec. 12) ... Tied for team lead with 17 goals; led team in power-play goals (9) ... Joseph E. Barss Award for the best team player as determined by U-M coaches ... Had career-high 12 assists, nine power-play goals ... Tallied season-high 2 goals on three occasions (vs. Michigan State on Jan. 28, vs. Lake Superior State on Feb. 11, at Ferris State on Feb. 24) ... 1-2-3 line at Nebraska-Omaha tied career-high assists and set season-high points (Dec. 9) ... Tied season-high points (2-1-3) vs. LSSU (Feb. 11) ... Career-best seven-game point streak, 6-4-10 (Jan. 7-Feb. 7) ... Career-best tying five-game goal streak, 6 goals (Jan. 7-Feb. 4) ... Four-game point streak, 4-1-5 (Feb. 24-March 11) ... Three-game goal and point streak, 3-3-6 (Dec. 3-10) ... Assist at North Dakota was his 100th career point in his final game (March 24) ... Scored 50th career goal at Miami (Dec. 3) ... Sat out game vs. Wisconsin (Nov. 26) due to injury, ending his consecutive games-played streak at 108. Had been the longest active streak at Michigan. Last missed a game on Feb. 22, 2003 ... Missed three straight games due to injury (Jan. 17-21) ... Recipient of the Harry and Ruth MacDuff Scholarship for Men's Ice Hockey.

Junior (2004-05)... Academic All-Big Ten Conference ... Great Lakes Invitational All-Tournament team (Dec. 29-30) ... Set career high with six power-play goals ... Notched second career hat trick, which included game winner, at Western Michigan. Set season best in points, 3-0-3, (Jan. 8) ... Season-best four-game point and goal streak, 4-0-4, (Dec. 10-30) ... Had season-high +3 rating vs. Wisconsin (March 25) ... Tallied two game-winning goals (at Western Michigan on Jan. 8, at Nebraska-Omaha on Feb. 11) ... Earned four multi-point games, bringing career total to 18 ... Vic Heyliger Champions Scholarship for Ice Hockey.

Sophomore (2003-04)... CCHA All-Academic special mention ... U-M Athletic Academic Achievement award ... Named to the All-Northeast Regional team ... CCHA Super Six All-Tournament team ... CCHA Offensive Player of the Week (Jan. 26) ... Awarded the Alton D. Simms Trophy as U-M's most improved player ... One of six Wolverines to play in all 43 games ... Led the Wolverines in goals with 20. Secured U-M's 20th-straight season with a 20-goal scorer with two strikes against New Hampshire in the NCAA Northeast Regional (March 27) ... Led the Wolverines with six multi-goal games ... Tied career best with three game-winners ... Set career-long, five-game point and goal streaks, 7-2-9, (Jan. 10-31). Streak was also U-M's longest goal run of the season ... Set career-best with four goals, his first of the season, against Quinnipiac (Oct. 17) - one of two Wolverines (Dwight Helminen) to score four in one game. With Jeff Tambellini's three-goal game on Oct. 18, was part of Michigan's first duo to net hat tricks in consecutive games since 1995 (Kevin Hilton, Warren Luhning vs. UIC - Feb. 10-11) ... Had career-best, four points twice (4-0-4 vs. Quinnipiac on Oct. 17, 2-2-4 vs. Bowling Green on Feb. 20) ... Scored first career short-handed goal against Minnesota (Nov. 29) ... Earned career-best tying two assists twice (vs. Niagara on Nov. 1, vs. Bowling Green on Feb. 20) ... Marsal Family Foundation Scholarship.

Freshman (2002-03)... A recipient of U-M's Athletic Academic Achievement award ... Tied for fifth on the team with 14 markers, second among U-M's freshmen ... Set a career-best two assists at Bowling Green (Nov. 8) ... Recorded a season-high four-game goal-scoring streak, 4-2-6, (Dec. 29-Jan. 10), tying his season-high four-game point streak, 4-3-7, (Oct. 19-Nov. 8) ... Suffered an injury against Northern Michigan (Feb. 7), causing him to miss five games (Feb. 8-22) ... Scored first two career goals vs. Merrimack (Oct. 19).

Club/Junior Team... Skated with the Cleveland Barons of the North American Hockey League from 2000-02 ... Led the league in scoring during the 2001-02 season with 52-37–89 in 54 games ... Earned NAHL MVP and All-NAHL first team honors in 2002 ... Tallied 16 power-play and eight game-winning goals as the alternate captain ... Spent eight games with the St. Louis Jr. Blues in 2000-01 ... Captained the Detroit Catholic Central High School team in 1999-2000 ... Helped lead the Shamrocks to the Class A state title during his junior and senior years (1999 and 2000) ... Team was ranked No. 1 by USA Today for high school hockey teams in the nation after posting a 29-1-1 mark in 1998-99 ... Named first team all-state and Michigan Interscholastic Hockey League MVP while leading the team to a 26-2 record in 1999-2000 ... Was a teammate of former Wolverine David Moss as a prep ... Also played varsity lacrosse for Catholic Central from 1997-99, earning all-state and all-Midwest honors as a junior.

Personal... Enrolled in the Division of Kinesiology, majoring in sport management ... Graduated from Detroit Catholic Central High School in 2000.