Kip Brennan

Kip Brennan
Date of birth	August 27, 1980
place of birth	Kingston , Ontario , Canada
size	193 cm
Weight	105 kg
position	Left wing
number	# 5
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1998 , 4th round, 103rd position Los Angeles Kings
Career stations
1996-1997	Windsor Spitfires
1997-2001	Sudbury Wolves
2001-2004	Los Angeles Kings
2004	Atlanta Thrashers
2004-2005	Chicago Wolves
2005-2006	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
2006-2007	Hershey Bears
2007-2008	Bridgeport Sound Tigers
2008	HIFK Helsinki
2008-2009	Hershey Bears
2009-2010	Springfield Falcons
2010-2011	Allen Americans Chicago Wolves
2011–2012	Vityaz Chekhov
2012-2013	Allen Americans Arizona Sundogs
since 2013	HK Saryarka Karaganda

Kip Brennan (born August 27, 1980 in Kingston , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with HK Saryarka Karaganda in the Wysschaja Hockey League since November 2013 .

Career

Kip Brennan began his career as a hockey player in the Canadian Junior League Ontario Hockey League , in which he was active from 1996 to 2001 for the Windsor Spitfires and Sudbury Wolves . During this period he was also selected in the fourth round of the 1998 NHL Entry Draft as the 103rd player of the Los Angeles Kings . For the Kings farm team , the Lowell Lock Monsters from the American Hockey League , he made his debut in senior professional hockey in the 2000/01 season . In the following three years, the winger played parallel for the Los Angeles Kings in the National Hockey League and their new farm team Manchester Monarchs in the AHL.

On March 9, 2004, Brennan was given to the Atlanta Thrashers in exchange for Jeff Cowan . For this he was on the ice in five NHL games by the end of the 2003/04 season . During the NHL lockout , he spent the 2004/05 season with Atlanta's farm team Chicago Wolves in the AHL. After resumption of the NHL game operations he was transferred to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim for Mark Popovic in August 2005 . In the Californians, however, he could not prevail and played only twelve games in the entire NHL season for the Mighty Ducks, and nine for their AHL farm team Portland Pirates . The Canadian started the 2006/07 season with the Toronto Marlies in the AHL and later played for their league rivals Hershey Bears and the Long Beach Ice Dogs in the ECHL .

On July 3, 2007, Brennan signed a contract as a free agent with the New York Islanders . They also used him predominantly in their AHL farm team Bridgeport Sound Tigers , while he himself completed three more NHL games for New York. For the 2008/09 season Brannen moved to Europe, where he was obliged by the HIFK Helsinki from the Finnish SM-liiga . After three assists in 22 games for the capital club, he returned to his ex-AHL team from Hershey, with whom he won the Calder Cup at the end of the season. He also played three times for their cooperation partner South Carolina Stingrays in the ECHL. The 2009/10 season completed the left shooter with the Springfield Falcons in the AHL.

The 2010/11 season began Brennan with the Allen Americans in the Central Hockey League . For his new team, he scored 21 scorer points in 31 games, eight of which were goals, which was a new personal record in his professional career for him. In late February 2011 he was loaned to his ex-club Chicago Wolves from the AHL, but returned to the Allen Americans for the CHL playoffs.

In mid-August 2011 Brennan was signed by Vitjas Chekhov from the Continental Hockey League .

Achievements and Awards

• 2009 Calder Cup win with the Hershey Bears

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season	5	61	1	1	2	222
NHL playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-
AHL regular season	10	311	25th	22nd	47	1539
AHL playoffs	5	32	1	3	4th	165
SM liiga main round	1	22nd	0	3	3	118
SM liiga playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-

(Status: end of the 2009/10 season)

Web links

• Kip Brennan at hockeydb.com (English)
• Kip Brennan at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Kip Brennan at eliteprospects.com (English)