In 2024 the Brookfield Stars came into the WIAA Boys High School Hockey State Tournament as the fourth seed and played spoiler for the top seeded Chippewa Falls Cardinals, beating them in overtime in a thriller.

This year, Brookfield is the top seed and it was Madison Edgewood playing the role of spoiler, skating to a 5-4 triple-overtime win.

A shorthanded two-on-one was Brookfield's best scoring chance in the early going. Connor Hillig slid the puck across to Cooper Simon, but a great backcheck and stick left by Owen Koch of the Crusaders broke up the play.

Edgewood got on the board first, with 2:39 left in the first period. Dylan Lenz had a nice wrap around attempt stopped by Stars goalie Brady Ferrell, but the Crusaders kept the play going, and eventually Matt Richter got the puck back to Lenz who fired through the five hole for the 1-0 lead.

Both goalies, Ferrell for Brookfield, and Hayden Reuhl for Edgewood, stopped six shots in the first period.

Brookfield evened the game at 3:57 of the second period when Ethan Vanden Bloom dumped the puck on net from the far blue line and Reuhl misplayed it and it went into the net. 

The Crusaders however, answered back just 37 seconds later. Lenz corralled the puck behind the net and started crossing to the other side, but quickly fired a back door pass to Davis Halbleib who buried it as everybody was going the other direction.

The Stars tied it up short handed at the 10:14 mark of the second period. Player of the Year Connor Hillig sprung Cooper Simon on a breakaway and Simon made a forehand-backhand move around Reuhl with tremendous speed for the goal to tie the game.

Edgewood retook the lead at the 15:05 mark when Matt Richter sniped the corner of the net from a bad angle over Ferrell's shoulder.

Brookfield would come back and tie the game at 3:13 of the third period when Park Dysart found himself all alone between the hashmarks in front and buried a shot to tie the game at 3.

Five minutes later the two teams would trade two goals in 20 seconds. Hudson Kinsler chipped the puck around the Brookfield defense and raced in to beat Ferrell and give Edgewood a short-lived 4-3 lead before Hillig would score from the slot on a feed from Simon to knot the game at four.

51 minutes wouldn't be enough as the teams would go into overtime knotted at four a piece. Neither team scored in the first two five-on-five overtime periods with Brookfield outshooting Edgewood 10-3 in those two periods. 

The third overtime would be a four-on-four period per the WIAA's tournament rules. Finally at the 3:08 mark of the third overtime, Owen Koch carried into the Brookfield zone, cut hard to the high slot and fired a wrister just inside the blocker side post to give Edgewood the 5-4 triple overtime win.