Massimo Rizzo’s first season in the AHL was an injury riddled, up and down affair.
One of the top college hockey players by the close of his career at Denver, Massimo Rizzo — brought in to the organization in a prospect swap with the Hurricanes and, effectively, as a return for jettisoning off Tony DeAngelo — came into his rookie season in the AHL with the Phantoms with some real intrigue around him, but the season that panned out was a difficult one. Plagued by injury and some up and down play, Rizzo’s still working on finding his footing in this league, and under new leadership, there’s a hope remaining that he can right this ship in his second go around.