Pittsburgh Pirates | |
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City | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
League | Western Pennsylvania Hockey League |
Founded | 1907 |
Operated | 1907–1908 |
Home arena | Duquesne Garden |
Colours | Blue, White [1] |
General manager | Richard Guy[2] |
Championships | |
Regular season titles | 0 |
The Pittsburgh Pirates were an early professional ice hockey club based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and were members of the Western Pennsylvania Hockey League for the 1908 WPHL season. The team, and the league, played all of their games at Duquesne Garden. The Pirates made one of the first known trades of professional hockey players.
Team president was local sports magnate Barney Dreyfuss who also owned the Major League Baseball team by the same name.[3]