NEWARK — You may not have heard of the Devils’ best forward prospect not named Jack Hughes, but chances are you will soon. At least that’s the plan.

Jesper Boqvist, a 20-year-old out of Falun, Sweden, is a dynamic, speedy left winger who could bring significant firepower to the Devils’ lineup. The Devils’ second-round pick in the 2017 draft and the brother of Chicago Blackhawks’ prospect Adam Boqvist, he scored 13 goals and assisted on 22 in Sweden’s highest league last season

No longer is the team reliant on a top line of Taylor Hall, Nico Hischier and Kyle Palmieri, the additions of Hughes and Wayne Simmonds have added balance and depth to the lineup. They have another young speedster in Jesper Bratt, another smooth-skating Swede, and the third line looks solid with Miles Wood, Travis Zajac and Blake Coleman.

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The bottom six is still a question and there are players with good NHL experience, like Kevin Rooney, Joey Anderson, Brett Seeney, Nathan Bastian and Michael McLeod fighting for those spots.

But Boqvist plans to be one of those players as well, with his expectations for himself firmly in line with the club’s expectations for him.

“I’m an offensive guy,” he said Thursday at Prudential Center. “My game is to make my teammates better and put some pucks in too.”

So, where does he go next?

“Right here,” said Paul Castron, New Jersey’s director of amateur scouting. “We want to keep him right here. He should challenge for a spot, that’s the goal.”

Boqvist is in Newark this week at the Devils’ development camp with the goal of adjusting to the smaller ice surface and getting to know the area in case he’s able to stay right where he is and make the Devils’ main roster out of training camp. If he doesn’t, he’ll have to go back to Sweden and play another season for Brynäs IF where the hope is that he’ll develop into a leader.

But should he stay in New Jersey, he’ll need to get better on North American ice, which is what he’s working toward this summer.

“I have to try to get inside the dots more, it’s closer,” he said. “The game around the corners and inside the dots. I think I improved that last year and hopefully I can keep going on that and build on that.”

One person he hopes can help him with that transition is Washington Capitals center Nicklas Backstrom. Another Brynäs alum, the veteran was Boqvist’s childhood hero. He still trains in the offseason in Gävle, where Boqvist trains, and though they’ve met in passing they’ve never trained together.

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But Boqvist will have a chance to train with him this summer and he’s hoping that gives him an edge come September.

“Nobody can play like him,” Boqvist said. “But I will skate with him this summer and hopefully I can ask him some things for when I come back here.”

Boqvist grew up a fan of the team he plays for in Gävle, so having the chance to play for that team has been meaningful for him. He signed another one-year contract with Brynäs IF in February, before inking an entry-level contract with the Devils in June, so he has a fallback plan in case he fails to crack the Devils’ opening night roster.

There is plenty for Boqvist to gain this week at development camp as he prepares to return stateside in September for the real camp where he’s hoping to take the next step in his hockey career by playing in the NHL.

“I’ll come back here in September and see,” he said. “We’ll take it from there.”