Willow has started to play soccer in addition to playing hockey because it just offers her an easier time with getting more and more flexible. You learn different skills on the soccer field than you do, but its shocking with how much they translate onto the rink. The main thing is just overall the coordination and timing improves tenfold. In soccer when you’re going for a header or trying to deflect the ball off your foot, it requires insane precision and perfect timing, because if its bad you’re launching that ball 30 feet over the net or you’re just missing the ball entirely and looking like an idiot. On the rink, when your teammate blindly throws a pass in your direction, Willow has been learning how to read it perfectly to her stick and launch it either out of the air or the second that it lands on the rink, and its all because of her effort off the rink on the soccer field.