This article is about the Western Pennsylvania Hockey League team. For the National Hockey League team, please see Pittsburgh Pirates (NHL). The Pittsburgh Pirates was a hockey club, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that became members of the the Western Pennsylvania Hockey League for the 1908 WPHL season. When the WPHL was revived in 1907, the only two original teams to return to the league after operations were suspended in 1904 were the Pittsburgh PAC and the Pittsburgh Bankers. Two new teams were needed to get the league back to its original number of four teams. One of the teams to enter the league in 1907 was the Pittsburgh Lyceum, and the other was the Pirates. The Pirates entered the league with loaded with professional players like Dunc Taylor, Ed Robitaille, Ray Robinson, Harry