Philadelphia Hockey Club 18U defenseman Sweeney signs NAHL Tender

The NAPHL’s T1ER League is pleased to announce that the CarShield AAA 18U goaltender Pat Sweeney has signed a NAHL tender agreement for the 2025-26 season with the Minnesota Wilderness of the NAHL’s Midwest Division.

Sweeney,17, is playing his second season in the T1ER league on Philadelphia Hockey Club’s blueline. During his first season with PHC, the Holland, PA native appeared in 16 games, including four Dixon Cup Playoff games and was able to dish out nine assists. So far during the 2024-25 campaign, Sweeney suited for four games in Blaine for the first T1ER event where he scored one goal and tallied one assist. 

Sweeney is the first skater from Philadelphia Hockey Club’s 18U team who has signed an NAHL tender agreement for the upcoming season. 

A tender is a contract, of sorts, a player signs announcing his intentions to play for that particular NAHL team and that NAHL team only. Once a player signs a tender with an NAHL team, his playing rights belong to that team within the NAHL and he may not be recruited by any other NAHL team. Each team is granted ten (10) tenders, which include two (2) tenders exclusively used on players from the T1ER - plus or minus any trades - which became active on November 1st. Tendered players are not eligible for the 2025 NAHL Draft.