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Seasons 1926-1931 (6 seasons)

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The Pirates, the third American-based NHL team, got off to a promising start in the 1925–26 season, making the playoffs in two of their first three seasons. However, the team soon fell on hard times both on the ice and at the box office. A sale to bootlegger Bill Dwyer did not help the cause. With the Wall Street Crash of 1929 followed by the Great Depression, the owners found themselves having to sell off their star players to make ends meet. By the end of the 1929–30 season, the team was $400,000 in debt, and their arena, the Duquesne Gardens, was not suitable for an NHL team. Boxing promoter Benny Leonard, Dwyer's front man, then requested permission to temporarily move to Philadelphia as the Quakers (from the historical importance of the Quaker religious community in the founding of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania) until a new arena was built in Pittsburgh.

Things did not get better on the other side of Pennsylvania. The financial woes continued unabated. On the ice, the Quakers were the definition of futility. It took the team three games to score a goal and three more to get its first win, which came on November 25, 1930, a 2–1 win over the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs. They finished with a horrendous 4–36–4 record. The .136 winning percentage was the lowest in NHL history, a record that would stand for 45 years until the Washington Capitals finished with a .131 winning percentage in the 1974–75 season. The four wins tied the 1919–20 Quebec Bulldogs for the fewest wins in NHL history for a team that played a full season. They had the worst offense (76 goals for) and worst defense (184 goals against) in the league. At the end of the 1930–31 season, the Quakers, along with the Ottawa Senators, announced that they would not field a team for the 1931–32 season, leaving Philadelphia without an NHL team until the arrival of the Flyers in 1967. The Flyers would adopt the orange and black colors used by the Quakers, though ironically because they used the colors of the Texas Longhorns as inspiration.

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Year	Season	League	Team	W	L	T	OTL	Pts	Pts%	GB	Standings	Playoffs	Coach	Attendance	Stadium	Berth	Champ
1931	1930-31	NHL	Philadelphia Quakers	4	36	4	0	12	.136		5th	Missed Playoffs	Cooper Smeaton		Philadelphia Arena
1930	1929-30	NHL	Pittsburgh Pirates	5	36	3	0	13	.148		5th	Missed Playoffs	Frank Fredrickson		Duquesne Gardens
1929	1928-29	NHL	Pittsburgh Pirates	9	27	8	0	26	.295		4th	Missed Playoffs	Odie Cleghorn		Duquesne Gardens
1928	1927-28	NHL	Pittsburgh Pirates	19	17	8	0	46	.523		3rd	Lost Quarterfinals	Odie Cleghorn		Duquesne Gardens	3
1927	1926-27	NHL	Pittsburgh Pirates	15	26	3	0	33	.375		4th	Missed Playoffs	Odie Cleghorn		Duquesne Gardens
1926	1925-26	NHL	Pittsburgh Pirates	19	16	1		39	.542		3rd	Lost NHL Semifinals	Odie Cleghorn		Duquesne Gardens	-3

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