For the record, my issue with Bennett stops at a different door. When he tried to sever Michael Bunting's spinal cord in the Toronto series and Players' Safety decided to issue him a fine instead of doing their job, THAT's my problem with Bennett. From that point on he's been a loosely guided missile who knows he can get away with walking right up to the line with little to no consequences. Was that a clean hit on Slavin? Probably. Would he have been so eager to deliver a snuff shot had he been disciplined for clearly trying to injure Bunting a couple of weeks before? Doubtful. This stuff builds on itself, and anyone who argues otherwise is frankly ... just flat out wrong.
That said, Florida got more than enough help from the refs in this series with their idiotically random definition of slashing to be worried about a single incident. Sometimes you can touch a guy on the glove with a stick and it's nothing and sometimes it's a penalty ... and too many times for my liking that judgement call leaned towards one team. Again, this stuff builds on itself, which is why the refs are supposed to pick a standard and stick to it. They failed in this series.