Hey fella, I'm a little confused. You have to drop 2 players in order to get under your salary cap? What is your cap?
Without knowing, I agree Murray is an easy drop in all cases. Should be easy to replace.
I'm not keen on droping KOPI unless it's absolutely necessary.
Are you allowed to keep Nichushkin with him playing over seas? Does he hold value for you? I prefer Kopitar over Nich.
I think for me Teravainen would also be a drop before Kopitar. Maybe I'm misunderstanding this component.
You only have 4 D left after dropping Murray so can you actually drop Murray if you have to keep 5D?
Your goalies are easy...keep the ones you have.
As for the 12 best forwards, I'd target the following.
Taylor Hall
Gabriel Landeskog
Matt Duchene
Anze Kopitar (!KEEP!)
Jonathan Huberdeau
Evgeny Kuznetsov
Sam Bennet
Nikolaj Ehlers
Jonathan Drouin
Pavel Buchnevich
Elias Lindholm
Nathan Mackinnon
Tyson Jost
Then it's a flip between keeping a prospect in Jost or flipping a coin on Buchnevich and Lindholm for me (I'm leaning toward keeping Buch if you don't keep Jost)