A New Jersey kid comes home, and then makes it big.

Kyle Palmieri avoided salary arbitration and re-signed with the Devils on Thursday, inking a five-year, $23.25 million deal carrying an annual salary-cap hit of $4.65 million.

Palmieri, 25, was born in Smithtown, Long Island, but grew up in Montvale, NJ. He was traded to his hometown Devils from the Ducks before the 2015 draft. The winger then led the Devils with 30 goals and 57 points in his first season, both career highs, including 11 goals and 23 points on the power play. He was a restricted free agent and filed for arbitration, but general manager Ray Shero got the deal done before that was needed.

Now Palmieri can go back to focusing on helping the new-look Devils make a run at the postseason by hopefully improving their putrid offense, which ranked last in the league in 2015-16. Joining big-time offseason addition Taylor Hall, that might be possible.

Shero also recently re-signed forward Jacob Josefson to a modest one-year, $1.1 million deal, as well as forward Sergei Kalinin to a one-year, $800,000 deal. The only unsigned restricted free agent left on the roster is Reid Boucher, who doesn’t have arbitration rights.