My son played School hockey in a pair of ‘Old School’ skates I bought on line from Hockey monkey. He used them for 4 years until he wore them out and ‘took over’ my ‘Mission’ skates. (Son, have you seen my skates? Sure Dad they are in my bag, I’ve been using them all season!)
Talk about name brands like CCM and the make great skates, but off brands are pretty good as well.
The way I skated (not good enough to make any hockey team, any age, any level in the state of Minnesota, off brands were the only kind I ever bought. If I could skate forward and reasonably straight with them, they were good enough for me.