[TheScorpion]

A terrible movie with Aaron Eckhart and Hillary Swank?

In all seriousness, I don't really like looking at teams as having a core. That just makes it harder to justify moving underachieving players. The Blackhawks got sucked into extending Brent Seabrook because he was a "core piece" and they got burned. You could call Benn, Seguin, and Radulov Dallas' core, but I don't think they deserve the majority of the credit for the Stars making it to the Final. Sure you can call guys like Crosby and Ovechkin core players if you want but those players are exceedingly few and far between. Almost everybody else is expendable to some degree.