The NHL home office apparently decided that Sharks forward Jamie McGinn had been punished enough. The league took no further action against McGinn for his check into the boards of Vancouver defenseman Aaron Rome during San Jose’s 4-3 victory in Game 3 of the Western Conference finals.

McGinn received a five-minute major penalty and a game misconduct for the hit, which bloodied Rome and forced him from the game in the third period Friday night. But Saturday, the league passed on suspending McGinn after holding a disciplinary hearing.

And McGinn was sticking to his story. He said he didn’t mean to injure Rome and was trying only to finish his check.

“It’s too bad that he got hurt,” said McGinn, who also received a game misconduct in the first-round series against Los Angeles. “I think I’ve looked at it 100 times. I tried to slow. I was finishing my check, and he hit his head on the glass.”

McGinn added: “I’m not a dirty player. I don’t try to take guys’ heads off. I just try to play as hard as possible.”

In the first period, McGinn knocked Christian Ehrhoff out of the game with a shoulder-to-shoulder check.

Vancouver coach Alain Vigneault had little to say about the NHL’s decision not to suspend McGinn.

“I’m not going to comment on how the league interprets certain hits,” Vigneault said. “Going to leave that up to them. That’s all I want to say there.”

Most of the Canucks chose their words carefully.

“Obviously, my opinion doesn’t count for much,” defenseman Kevin Bieksa said. “But you just look at the injury that happened on the play, and obviously Aaron was pretty banged up. But the league saw it differently, I guess.”

Vigneault refused to discuss the extent of Rome’s and Ehrhoff’s injuries. Neither player skated Saturday, and the Canucks spent Saturday talking as if it’s a given the two defensemen won’t play in Sunday’s Game 4 at HP Pavilion.

The likely replacements would be Keith Ballard and Andrew Alberts. Ballard played in 65 regular-season games but has been out of the lineup since Game 2 of the second round. Rookie Christopher Tanev was summoned from Vancouver as insurance.

“It’s something that we have to deal with,” Vigneault said of the injuries. “I do believe that as a group we’ve dealt with a lot of injuries this year. We’ve been able to handle it real well. Right now, I’m confident that we’re going to do the same thing.”

Just as Sharks coach Todd McLellan predicted after Friday’s victory, Logan Couture was fine after taking an accidental elbow to the head from teammate Ryane Clowe in the third period. Couture practiced Saturday and said he was ready to play in Game 4. But he didn’t look that way Friday as he struggled to his feet and appeared woozy heading into the locker room. “I felt a little dazed,” Couture said. “The doctor said I was fine, but they didn’t want me coming back in the game.” Couture took the mandatory concussion test in the locker room, which he passed. He wanted to sit on the bench for the rest of the game, but McLellan sent him back to the locker room. Clowe said: “If he’s going to play on my line, he’s got to have a nose like me. I hit him pretty hard. I didn’t move.”

Defenseman Jason Demers, who has an undisclosed injury, did not practice Saturday. McLellan continues to call him “day to day.”