Wednesday . . .

A tip of the cap to Steve Passmore, who doubles as the Kamloops Blazers’ goaltending coach and the assistant coach of the junior B Kamloops Storm. The former NHL goaltender also owns a piece of a downtown Kamloops restaurant, the Players Chophouse and Lounge, and that’s where he was Monday afternoon when Marijane Moses, who has moved to Kamloops from the Yukon in order to attend university, began screaming that someone had taken her purse. According to the Kamloops Daily News: Passmore “leapt over the patio railing and ran after the man, who turned into the parking lot of the Kamloops Inn with two women in pursuit. Moses said she ran west along Victoria Street, hoping to cut the robber off. Passmore said the culprit discarded the purse as he ran down an alley toward the CIBC. Moses said one of the women brought the purse back to her with all its contents accounted for. But the man wasn’t giving up — and neither was Passmore. The two men ran into the CIBC parking lot when Passmore closed the gap enough to tackle the culprit.” . . . “We hit the pavement,” Passmore told the newspaper. Passmore kept the guy in place until police showed up and arrested him. . . . By the way, the perp -- Stephen Keith Walsh, 35 -- was sentenced to four months in jail on Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to theft. . . . The RCMP decided not to charge Passmore with holding; after all, this just may have been the best save of Passmore’s career.
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F Evan Pighin hasn’t reported to Chilliwack and now is on the Bruins’ suspended list. “As of this moment, he’s on our suspended list and he will remain there until he reports to the Chilliwack Bruins,” Bruins GM Darrell May told Eric J. Welsh of the Chilliwack Progress. “I’ve sent him e-mails and left him phone messages but I haven’t gotten any responses lately.” The two last spoke July 15. . . . Pighin, 20, has said he wants to play for the BCHL’s Victoria Grizzlies, the host team for the 2009 Royal Bank Cup. . . . However, the Bruins maintain that it isn’t that simple. As May told Welsh: “Evan signed a contract and he should be obligated to fulfill that contract. I think any contract you sign in any walk of life, you should fulfill it.” . . . Welsh reported that Grizzlies GM Jackson Penney said in late July that no team would prevent a player from playing hockey. To which May replied: “We’re not making Evan not play hockey. We have a place for him to play, and it’s at the highest level of junior in Canada.” . . . Gotta think WHL commissioner Ron Robison will be all over this one before too long, perhaps once he’s through navigating the sale of the Portland Winter Hawks through choppy waters.