It is one of the largest repositories of hockey data on the internet, gathering more than 1.3 million unique visitors a month.

Hockey statistics on the website are updated on a regular basis and include daily morning reports, which detail the current standings of world-wide leagues, daily hockey transactions, and all-time records.

[2] In 2018, Slate was interviewed by FanSided writer Michael Joubran to discuss more about the website that connects fans to the statistics of their favorite players, past and present.

In that interview, Slate dropped an easter egg, saying “if I have more than one photo of a player [on the website], clicking on the player’s photo will cycle through them all.”[4] Peter Alper joined the HockeyDB team in 2019.

The account is known for using images and statistics from the website to spark conversation on social media.