Detviler's love for hockey began as a kid, when she would follow her hockey-playing older brother, Mike, around the rinks in which he played. She was always in the stands when her brother player for Simley High School, cheering on the Spartans, as doting and loyal as a sibling can be.
She was interested in the Wild when it was announced the state was getting an NHL franchise in 1997, but it wasn't until she met her boyfriend, Jay, that her passion for the Wild was born.
It was love at first sight.
Shortly after meeting, Jay brought Kris to his hockey "museum" in his basement, where the walls are loaded with memorabilia from the North Stars days, including the four seats from Met Center, where he had season tickets.
It was a passion that had scared some women in the past. But Detviler was hooked.
"The first thing I said when I walked into the room was, 'This is the coolest thing I have ever seen,'" Detviler said. "He said, 'Seriously? A lot of girls are really weirded out by it.' But if you saw the basement I grew up in, it was all sports. My dad was all sports. So to me, that was cool."
The two of them immediately went about making new hockey memories together.
Kris and Jay, two of the team's earliest season ticket holders, have pictures from inside Xcel Energy Center before there were even seats.
"We were touring it long before the team was ever there," Detviler said. "That first year, with him, we were going to lots of games. He was going to let one of his tickets go, so I bought it, and I had a season ticket for seven seasons."