The Bruins started trade deadline day with a minor deal with the Flyers.
Boston acquired forwards Alexis Gendron and Massimo Rizzo on Friday in exchange for forward Brett Harrison and defenseman Jackson Edward.
None of the players involved has NHL experience.
Harrison and Edward have been with Providence all season.
Gendron has 10 goals and 22 points this season for the AHL’s Lehigh Valley Phantoms. The 22-year-old was drafted in the seventh round in 2022 by the Flyers. In 127 career games with the Phantoms, he has 35 goals and 57 points.
Rizzo has played in 29 games for the ECHL’s Reading Royals this season, collecting six goals and 22 points. Rizzo, 24, was originally a seventh-round selection of the Hurricanes in 2019.
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