Minot Minotauros

The Minot Minotauros (commonly known as the Tauros) are an American junior ice hockey team set to begin play for the 2011-12 season. Based in Minot, North Dakota, the Tauros will play their home games at Maysa Arena.

The Tauros are Minot's 5th hockey team, following the Minot Raiders which played in the Southwest Hockey League in 1975-76 and than as the Minot Rangers for the 1976-77 season, the Minot Maple Leafs which played in the Continental Hockey League for the 1985-86 season, the Minot Americans/Top Guns which played in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League from 1987–97 and the Minot Muskies which played in the America West Hockey League for the 2000-01 season (the AWHL would later merge with the NAHL).