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ESPN's prospect writer Corey Pronman recently released his top-100 prospect rankings, and the Devils didn't fare too well.

Of the 100 prospects ranked, the Devils surprisingly had just one.

The lucky player is defenseman Steven Santini - a 2nd round pick of the Devils in 2013 - who has progressed nicely since being drafted.

While the Devils don't have a stacked system, anyone who follows prospects relatively close will tell you that New Jersey's pipeline is pretty solid when it comes to prospects on the back end.

Under Pronman's guidelines players such as Eric Gelinas and Jon Merrill aren't eligible for the list, but top prospects Reid Boucher, who scored 62 goals in his last year of junior and 22 in 56 AHL games last year, as well as defenseman Damon Severson, who has tallied 141 points in his last 160 junior games (playoffs included), surprisingly were unranked.

Pronman tends to put a premium on skilled forwards and puck moving defensemen - defensive defensemen and goaltenders are rarely ranked - so it was pretty shocking that Boucher, a skilled goal scorer, and Severson, a fluid two-way defenseman, didn't crack the list.

To each his own, I guess, but I expect we'll be hearing a lot more from Severson and Boucher moving forward.

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