AHI Fighting Spirit

The team was founded in 2012 as the Lake George Fighting Spirit playing out of Lake George, New York. The Fighting Spirit joined the NSHL as one of the seven inaugural teams.

The Fighting Spirit won the inaugural NSHL regular-season championship with a record of 37-4-1. With the title, the Fighting Spirit received an automatic bid, with the second place Syracuse Stampede, to the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) United Hockey Union tournament in Las Vegas, Nevada. The tournament included the top teams from the three AAU-sanctioned leagues; the NSHL, Western States Hockey League, and the Midwest Junior Hockey League.

Prior to the 2013-14 season, the team moved to Waterville Valley, New Hampshire and were known as the AHI Fighting Spirit to reflect a partnership with the American Hockey Institute. The Fighting Spirit captured the team's second straight NSHL regular season title with a record of 31-4-3-2. After falling in the playoffs and participating in the second UHU National Championship in Las Vegas, the team announced a move to Laconia, New Hampshire and would change their name to the New Hampshire Fighting Spirit for the 2014-15 season.

After the 2014-15 season the Fighting Spirit relocated again to Lewiston, Maine and is called the L/A Fighting Spirit (with the L/A standing for Lewiston/Auburn) and plays home games at Androscoggin Bank Colisee.

In March 2017, it was announced that Fighting Spirit owner and head coach Rod Simmons had sold the team to the owner of the Androscoggin Bank Colisee, Jim Cain. Cain has announced that beginning with the 2017-18 season, the team will rebrand as the Lewiston/Auburn Nordiques after the former professional team, the Maine Nordiques.With Simmons also stepping down from his coaching position, assistant coach Cam Robichaud was retained and promoted to head coach.

• from 2012 to 2013: Lake George Fighting Spirit
• from 2013 to 2014: AHI Fighting Spirit
• from 2014 to 2015: New Hampshire Fighting Spirit
• from 2015 to 2017: Lewiston-Auburn Fighting Spirit
• from 2017 to present: Lewiston-Auburn Nordiques

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