Danbury 18U forward Saul Jr signs NAHL Tender

The NAPHL’s T1ER League is pleased to announce that Danbury Hat Trick 18U forward Jeffrey Saul Jr. has signed a NAHL tender agreement for the 2025-26 season with the Corpus Christi IceRays of the NAHL’s South Division.

Saul Jr. is in his first season with the Danbury Hat Tricks as he caps off his youth career at the 18U level. The Reading, Pennsylvania native has been on a tear, leading all 18U players in scoring with 19 points (16 goals, 3 assists) in just 11 games, good for 1.73 points per game.

His hottest stretch came in late November at the T1ER East Showcase in Marlborough, Massachusetts. Saul Jr. racked up 12 points across four games, recording multi-point efforts in three of them and scoring in every contest. His biggest performance came on the 23rd, when the Hat Tricks defeated Militia Cats Prep 7–3 and he put up four goals, including one on the power play.

He is the first player from Danbury’s 18U team to sign an NAHL tender agreement for the upcoming season.

Click here to see a list of T1ER tenders for the 2025-26 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 2026 NAHL Draft.