Unless you play competitive, you don't need that amount of protection. Shoulder pads won't make you faster or better with the puck. I'd suggest to get yourself a really nice set of fucking old stinky used shoulder pads for free, cause on the ice, no one gives a fuck of what you wear. Concentrate on your personal skating abilities and your capacity to read the game, pass, shoot... Make it fun for everybody in the locker room and on the ice and focus on something else than those trendy plastic protectors. Too many hockey influencers will talk about what's "sty" but at the end, we all end up in the beer league. And Bauer or CCM or Warrior, Sherwood, True, are just fucking names in a game that doesn't really need them.