Editing Nashua Pride (section)

==Sale of the Pride==
[[file:Bodemiller1.JPG|thumb|[[Bode Miller]] playing for the Nashua Pride]]

Following the 2008 season, when the Pride lost an estimated $500,000,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080829/SPORTS07/308298630/-1/Pride |date=August 29, 2008 |title=Pride back in limbo |first=Tom |last=King |newspaper=The Telegraph |access-date=January 13, 2009}}{{Dead link|date=September 2022}}</ref> former owner John Stabile sold the team to the [[American Defenders of New Hampshire]], LLC. Stabile, a Nashua resident, had bought the team in January 2006 to prevent it from relocating, and got assurances from the new owners that they would keep the team in Nashua.

American Defenders of New Hampshire, LLC consisted of Nokona executives Buddy Lewis and Jerry O'Connor, former [[Boston Red Sox]] general manager [[Dan Duquette]], and Terry Allvord.<ref>{{cite news |title=About the American Defenders, LLC |url=http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080930/SPORTS07/309309998/0/ABOUT |access-date= |date= |newspaper=The Telegraph}}{{Dead link|date=September 2022}}</ref>

The new owners changed the club's name from the Nashua Pride to the American Defenders of New Hampshire, placing less of an emphasis on the Nashua market. They kept General Manager Chris Hall and promoted [[Brian Daubach]] from Hitting Coach to Manager.

The team was evicted from Holman Stadium in Nashua midway through the 2009 season because of nonpayment of rent.