[2] In the 2018 U18 Newfoundland & Labrador Provincial Championships, Krats finished the competition in third place with a 3–2 record.

[5] This qualified Krats for his first ever national event where he would compete at the 2019 Canadian U18 Curling Championships and finish with a 1–5 record,[6] only beating Team Josh Nowlan of New Brunswick.

Here they would go on an infamous 5–1 run that would help send him to Newfoundland & Labrador's first appearance in the finals[7] since Brad Gushue.

Krats would also find himself joining the Nathan Young rink for the U18 tournament as Ben Stringer had aged out of competition.

[9] For 2021, it was announced that Ryan McNeil Lamswood and Joel Krats would get the amazing opportunity to compete in the 2021 World Junior Curling Championships alongside members of the Alberta rink that finished third in 2020.

This quartet would go on to compete in the 2021 Newfoundland & Labrador Tankard where they would finish round robin with a 6–1 record and send themselves to the semi-final.

In 2022, Krats announced that he would be leaving Newfoundland & Labrador to go live and curl in Nova Scotia with the junior super-team of Owen Purcell.

In the 2022 World Junior Curling Championships, the Owen Purcell rink would end up finishing the round robin with a 6-3 record and defeating Norway's Grunde Burass 13-4 in the bronze medal game.