Where to lace up
in Europe.

A pro hockey player at the level of France D1, HockeyEttan, the Alps Hockey League, or Erste Liga has a quiet privilege most athletes never get: the freedom to choose where to live. This atlas catalogues thirteen towns chosen not for their rinks, but for what surrounds them — Dolomite peaks, Lapland skies, Tyrolean cobblestones, the medieval lake at the foot of the Julian Alps.