Sunday notes and highlights . . .

F Jon Kalinski of the Minnesota State Mavericks has signed with the NHL‚s Philadelphia Flyers. Kalinski, from Bonnyville, Alta., was a sixth-round pick in the 2007 NHL draft. Kalinski played three seasons with the Mankato-based Mavericks. He is the older brother of Kamloops Blazers C Devon Kalinski. . . .
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The WHL is idle until Tuesday night when the Kelowna Rockets are in Seattle to meet the Thunderbirds in Game 7 of their first-round series. It is the only one of the eight opening series to go the distance. . . . The winner gets the Tri-City Americans in the next round. . . . Game time at the Key Arena is 7:05 p.m. . . . Kelowna is 1-1 in Games 7s this decade. That includes a 2-1 victory over Seattle in 2005. . . . The Thunderbirds are 1-2 in Game 7s since 2000. . . .
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Don’t be looking for a coaching change with the Regina Pats, who finished atop the Eastern Division, earned the Eastern Conference’s second seed, and then bowed out in the first round. . . . Regina general manager Brent Parker told the Regina Leader-Post’s Greg Harder that head coach Curtis Hunt, who has a year left on his contract, isn’t going anywhere. “I have no issue with the job Curtis has done,” Parker said. “I think it has been a good relationship that he and I have shared. I have a lot of confidence in the guys downstairs. Curtis has had a lot of other commitments (with the national junior team the last two years). I think it’ll be nice to have him around for the full season.” . . . Yes, but will Parker, who is annually surrounded by rumours regarding his possible departure, hang around? “I don’t wanna make those kind of decisions right now,” he told Harder. “I’m not (leaning) one way or the other. I don’t think now is the time to be thinking about it because it just opens up to making decisions based too much on emotion.” . . .
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SUNDAY NIGHT IN THE WHL:
In Moose Jaw, F Ryan White’s third-period goal gave Calgary a 3-1 lead and the Hitmen went on to a 4-2 victory over the Warriors. . . . Calgary won the series 4-2 and will meet the Swift Broncos in the second round. . . . The Hitmen won three times in the Crushed Can during this series. . . . Moose Jaw F Jordan Knackstedt pulled his side to within one with a PP score but the Hitmen put it away on Kyle Bortis’s shorthanded empty-netter. . . . With the score tied 1-1, Moose Jaw captain Riley Holzapfel twice had shots hit goal posts. . . . Attendance was 2,337. . . .
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In Lethbridge, G Juha Metsola stopped 22 shots to lead the Hurricanes to a 4-0 victory over the Brandon Wheat Kings. . . . The Hurricanes won the series 4-2 and will meet the Kootenay Ice in the second round. That series is to open Friday in Lethbridge. . . . Lethbridge F Craig Orfino got the winner just 2:32 into the first period. . . . D Luca Sbisa had a goal, his third of the series, and an assist. . . . Brandon G Joe Caligiuri stopped 30 shots. . . . The Hurricanes won the first three games of the series, before Brandon won twice to force a sixth game. . . . Lethbridge hadn’t won a playoff series since the spring of 1997. In the interim, it had lost six times in the first round and on four occasions didn’t qualify for the playoffs. . . . Attendance was 3,949.