PHOTO: Did Alex Burrows pull Phil Kessel's hair during melee?

Late in the second period of Saturday night's game between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Vancouver Canucks, Alex Burrows picked a fight with Leafs superstar Phil Kessel. 

Kessel and Burrows had fought previously this season, but this bout seemed a little bit different (Kessel wasn't quite such a willing participant this time).

Also, it would appear that Burrows pulled Kessel's hair during the welterweight melee:

[Courtesy CBC]

If Burrows was in fact pulling Kessel's hair at the Air Canada Centre on Saturday night then it would be the second high-profile hair pulling incident for the Canucks pest. Back in 2009, Burrows pulled Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Duncan Keith's hair during a line brawl and was roundly criticized for it.

"That's not something I've ever had happen to me," Keith said at the time. "My little sister never even pulled my hair when I was a kid. It's kind of comical when you have a grown man trying to pull your hair on the ice."

Added then-Blackhawks grinder Adam Burish: "I think it's silly. There's no spot for that. I think that's stupid the way he was pulling [Keith's] hair. Especially a nice haircut like Duncan has."

If Burrows did in fact give Kessel's coiffure a yank, expect some interesting post game quotes from the Maple Leafs dressing room.