“Do They Bleep You?”: Paul Maurice on NHL 25 Nod
Paul Maurice and his unique personality and coaching style were added to the NHL 25 video game this week, but he had just one important question about that.
When Paul Maurice found out that EA Sports’ NHL 25 added coaches and their unique personalities to the game, he had one very important question.
“Do they bleep you?” He said. “Do you move up and down the bench and scream profanities. Is there volume?”
When team reporter Jameson Olive broke the news to Paul that the game does not include his trademark f-bombs from the bench, he was a bit disappointed.
(The game would probably have to bump its ERSB rating up from Everyone 10+ to Mature if they did that.)
“That’s hardly realistic,” he said.
The game was a bit kinder to him when molding his face into the game, giving him a fuller, darker set of hair which has him closer resembling to himself during his time with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Carolina Hurricanes in the early 2000s.
Nowadays, he looks a bit different.
“I can rob a bank tomorrow and I have video proof that it wasn’t me,” Maurice said.
Maurice won’t be loading up the game to play with himself anytime soon, even if it gave him straight-As across the board in his ratings for the game’s franchise mode.
He has a bad relationship with video games.
“It’s awesome that coaches are apart of it. And I appreciate that. But the last video game I played was Mario Kart 19 years ago,” Maurice said. “My kids were somewhere between six and nine and they destroyed me, and I think it was the finest day they ever had.
“They laughed and they enjoyed the savage beating I took. They mocked me, I think they backed their cars up over me. I think it was the most enjoyable humiliation I’ve ever had.
“And now I’m smart enough to not go back for more.”
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