[1] The following fall, Kaltiainen began attending Boston College and joined an ice hockey program that had just won its first national championship in 52 years.
Beginning with his sophomore year, Kaltiainen was the starting goaltender for the program and helped the club win three consecutive Hockey East titles.
[3] During his senior season, Kaltiainen had to again share the net, this time with star recruit and first-round draft pick Cory Schneider.
Despite possessing better numbers over the course of the season, Kaltiainen was displaced by Schneider in the conference tournament and spent most of his last weeks with the team on the bench.
[6] While pursuing an engineering degree, Kaltiainen began working as a technical consultant for OpenText and split his time between the two enterprises.