Four-Player AHL Swap: Gendron, Rizzo to Bruins; Harrison, Edward to Flyers

Alexis Gendron and Massimo Rizzo were acquired by the Boston Bruins organization while Brett Harrison and Jackson Edward were sent to the Philadelphia Flyers organization in a four-player minor-league swap announced March 6, 2026. The move, completed hours before the deadline, reshuffles AHL and ECHL depth for both clubs with immediate implications for Providence and Lehigh Valley rosters.

Gendron, a 22-year-old forward, arrives in Providence with 10 goals and 12 assists for 22 points in 47 games this season for Lehigh Valley, and 35 goals and 22 assists for 57 points in 127 career AHL games. He led the Phantoms with 118 shots this season and carried an 8.5 percent shooting rate into the trade, ranking eighth in team scoring before the move. Gendron will join a Providence Bruins club that sits atop the Eastern Conference and is beefing up forward depth for its Calder Cup push.

Massimo Rizzo, 22, brings a different profile: after a decorated college career at the University of Denver where he wore the alternate captain A and won two national championships, he has spent most of 2025–26 with the Reading Royals in the ECHL, producing six goals and 16 assists for 22 points in 29 games. Rizzo is in the final year of his contract and, per available records, has seen his pro stock dip since turning pro. Sources conflict on his original 2019 draft attribution, with one account calling him a 2019 seventh-round pick originally drafted by Carolina and another listing him as a 2019 seventh-round selection, No. 216, by Philadelphia.

Brett Harrison, the 22-year-old forward heading to the Flyers organization, was a 2021 third-round pick, 85th overall. Harrison is 6 foot 3 and 201 pounds and had eight goals and nine assists for 17 points in 46 games with Providence this season, part of a 140-game AHL resume that includes 19 goals and 30 assists for 49 career points. He offers positional flexibility as a center and left wing pivot, and projects as size and offensive depth for the Flyers’ AHL ranks.

Jackson Edward, 22, is a right-shot defenseman who appeared in nine AHL games for Providence this season and added seven assists in 21 games with Maine of the ECHL. His career AHL totals list one goal and six assists in 40 games, and he was a seventh-round pick in 2022. Edward, listed at 6 foot 2 and 200 pounds, is expected to bolster defensive depth in the Flyers’ system following recent organizational departures.

Phantoms head coach John Snowden underlined the stakes for AHL competition in this window, noting how players must emulate "how the Bruins play hard, play the right way for success in the postseason" and commit to that hard game to position themselves for a run. None of the four players have logged an NHL game to date, making this a deadline-day transaction focused on AHL and ECHL roster balance, developmental opportunity, and short-term playoff positioning rather than immediate NHL impact. The swap leaves both organizations with clearer depth maps as the AHL regular season heads toward the playoffs.