A look at the stat sheet might not give you a lot of information about Kevin Gravel, the Kings fifth round pick from 2010. Playing for St. Cloud State in the NCAA, he certainly isn’t lighting up the scoresheet, or taking a huge number of penalties, or putting up eye-popping plus/minus numbers. In fact if there is one word to describe his stat sheet it would be “nondescriptâ€. However what you don’t see in the stats, and what many casual hockey fans even might miss when watching his game is how good Gravel is in the defensive end of the rink. Quite simply, Gravel has become one of the best pure defensive defencemen in the NCAA.
