More from Thursday . . .

Kamloops D Mike Gauthier has been suspended for two games by the WHL and will miss the Blazers’ weekend home games against the Prince George Cougars and Kootenay Ice. Gauthier wasn’t penalized for the open-ice hit on D Dane Crowley of the Everett Silvertips. The hit happened in the second period when Crowley skated up ice, dumped the puck into the Kamloops zone and then cut into the centre of the ice, perhaps to head for his bench on a change. Gauthier came across and lowered the boom. Crowley left the game with a concussion and didn’t return. . . . None of the on-ice officials — referees Trevor Hanson and Andy Thiessen, linesmen Kris Hartley and Nathan Van Oosten — saw fit to call for a penalty, never mind a major penalty. . . . The Silvertips sent in video of the hit and asked for supplemental discipline, which they got. . . . Sorry, but sooner or later hockey is going to have to come to grips with players who put themselves in harm’s way. That is precisely what this incident. Crowley dumped the puck in and cut into the middle of the ice. Boom! . . . And because Crowley was injured, the WHL, which apparently decided that it was a late hit, chose to suspend the hammer. . . . There is little enough hitting left in the game without suspending the deliverer of a good, hard check. . . .

The WHL office was busy Thursday. . . . The Moose Jaw Warriors and Saskatoon Blades each got touched for $250 for “warm-up violation” on Wednesday in Moose Jaw. . . . D Cody Hobbs of the Chilliwack Bruins will sit for one game for a cross-checking major and game misconduct he incurred in Spokane on Wednesday. . . . Saskatoon C Colton Gillies was hit with a one-game sentence for a boarding major and game misconduct from Wednesday’s game in Moose Jaw. . . .

Is it at all ironic that two players drew one-game suspensions for penalties incurred during a game and a player who wasn’t penalized drew a two-game sentence? . . .

Saskatoon Blades RW Kevin Philp will be out indefinitely as he recovers form a broken jaw suffered in an early first-period fight with Ryley Grantham of the Warriors in Moose Jaw on Wednesday night. Philp had surgery Thursday in Saskatoon.