Pittsburgh Bankers

The team played all of its games at Duquesne Garden, and was involved in the first known trade of professional hockey players.

[1] The team representing the Bankers' Association won admission and on November 28, 1899 played its first league game.

The winner of that series is unclear since Portage Lakes would win two of the four games and tie a third and the Bankers claimed the edge in total goals, 11–6.

[9] The following season, the Bankers saw their star player, Hod Stuart, leave the team to join the Portage Lakes Hockey Club.

[10] The Bankers' Charlie Liffiton was offered $1350 to play for the Portage Lakes club for the remainder of the season, making him the era's highest paid player.

[12] A bigger deal took place on January 27, 1908, when the Bankers sent Joseph Donnelly and Bert Bennett to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Jim MacKay, Edgar Dey and Dunc Taylor.

The newly revived league could no longer rely on salaries as novelty to attract Canadian talent, since professionalism had spread into Canada.

Many players signed up, particularly since the WPHL played on Duquesne Garden's artificial ice and was not dependent on cold weather to provide a naturally frozen surface; however as winter began and Canadian rinks became available, the players would just flock north to teams closer to home.

[22] When the WPHL was revived in late 1907 after three seasons of inactivity, the Bankers came back wearing olive green jerseys with a gold dollar sign on the chest.