Habs forward Paul Byron helps save pilot after weekend floatplane crash in Quebec

Montreal Canadiens forward Paul Byron helped rescue a pilot of a floatplane that crashed Saturday in a lake in Quebec’s Laurentians region, northwest of Montreal.

The crash and the rescue occurred Saturday in Notre-Dame-du-Laus, Que., about 240 kilometres northwest of Montreal, and was first reported by French-language sports network Réseau des sports.

Byron tweeted late Sunday that he and his father-in-law and brother-in-law helped rescue the pilot from the water.

The NHLer said most of the credit should to go Serge Labelle, a man on a watercraft who was first to arrive at the scene of the crashed plane.