I saw it on the night, thought it was spearing, rather than the slashing call. Not surprised at all. I don’t like this “third man in” that we've seen too in recent games. Thompson was lucky last night to get away with it, stepping in between Cox and the Blaze player. The refs could have called that quite easily and he would have been ejected from the game. Cox is game enough to stand up for himself, stupid play from Thompson.