• Kral ranked first among WHL rookie defensemen with 9-26—35 in 54 games with the Spokane Chiefs in 2017-18. He is the only Chiefs rookie defenseman in the last 20 years to record 35 points in a season.

• No stranger to winning, Kral was a member of the Czech Republic’s gold medal-winning team at the 2016 Ivan Hlinka Memorial, appeared in five postseason games for Czech League champion Brno in 2016-17 and led all defensemen in assists in a championship season with Brno’s under-18 team in 2015-16.

• His brother, Tadeas Kral, is a forward who skated for Trebic in the Czech second division in 2017-18.

• Models his style of play after Capitals defenseman Dmitry Orlov.