Headshots February 22nd

As Burrows’ life, flashed before his eyes.
This image comes from the bane of hockeyy insiderrs everywhere: ontheforecheck.com

Good work by Gordon Macintyre on Byron Bitz, who says his recent hip-flexor issues are the result of getting back into game-shape – and not a recurrence of the various ailments that caused him to miss two full seasons. Fingers crossed that he’s right.

Jason Brough points out that Bitz’s questionable status presents the Canucks with a conundrum headed into next weeks trade deadline.

Harrison Mooney’s spit-balling post today takes folks to task for misunderstanding Mason Raymond, and pointed me to today’s GIF Break (via Chloe Ezra), which, is wicked awesome, so let’s get to it:

I like Laura Dern jokes, mostly because she was the first lady I thought was hot and Jurassic Park is the best. Jordan Bowman makes a few in his "Casting Call" post over at the Legion today.

Matt the Mascot fake interviewed Keith Ballard.

Finally here’s Cam Charron on Chris Tanev " In the seven games that Chris Tanev has played this year, Vancouver have earned 53.4% of all scoring chances at 5 on 5—101 for and 88 against—but while Tanev is on the ice, the number goes up to 57.4%." *Swoon*