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Doug Armstrong was willing to do anything to keep David Backes, but he wouldnt do long term.The St. Louis Blues general manager said goodbye to the teams captain for the past five seasons, who left to sign with the Boston Bruins, and made some complementary moves on the first day of NHL free agency.Armstrong wasnt willing to get close to the $30 million, five-year deal Backes got from the Bruins and said hell be sorely missed.I had no problem bringing David Backes back and I wish we could have, Armstrong said on a conference call Friday. I wasnt comfortable on the term. To Davids credit, he found a team that was comfortable.Backes said there wasnt an agreement on term or on dollars and came to grips with leaving the Blues, with whom he spent the first 10 years of his career. The Blues had to move on quickly and did so by signing 28-year-old winger David Perron and shoring up their goaltending situation.St. Louis signed Perron to a $7.5 million, two-year deal, and hell play a role in replacing right wing Troy Brouwer, who left for an $18 million, four-year deal with the Calgary Flames. Perron returns to the team that drafted him 26th overall in 2007.Hes coming back as a much more mature player on and off the ice, Armstrong said. We view him as certainly a player that can play in the top nine. Hes versatile -- he can play left wing or right wing. It gives the coach some options.Perron had 12 goals and 24 assists with the Pittsburgh Penguins and Anaheim Ducks last season and has 141 goals and 191 assists in 570 NHL games. Hell count $3.75 million against the cap for the next two seasons.The Blues also signed goaltender Jake Allen to a $17.4 million, four-year extension that begins with the 2017-18 season. Armstrong knew hed be able to sign Allen after trading goalie Brian Elliott to the Flames at the draft.Everyone was on the feeling that its Jakes team now, its Jakes turn and it made it easy, Armstrong said. We really think that Jake is going to be a real good player, and he wants the ball and hes got it now.Allens backup will be 30-year-old Carter Hutton, who had been stuck behind All-Star Pekka Rinne in Nashville. Hutton signed a two-year deal worth $2.25 million.A lot like Brian Elliott (Hutton is) a great competitor and a great teammate, Armstrong said. Someone that is looking to push Jake but also understands that hes a mentor and a solid partner. There was a lot of positives with bringing him in. it just seemed like the proper guy that had the experience that Jake can lean on.Without Backes, Brouwer and Elliott, the Blues are weaker than they were when they lost to the San Jose Sharks in the Western Conference final. 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After nearly losing his ball in the pine needles and sagebrush, Woodland chipped in from the rough from 58 feet for one of his four birdies Sunday en route to his second PGA Tour victory. "I got lucky to find my ball on 14 there in the hazard and I kind of chopped it out," Woodland said. "The chip that went in I was just trying to get it on the green, let alone go in. It was one of the best shots Ive ever hit." Woodland finished with 44 points in the modified Stableford format that awards eight points for double eagle, five for eagle, two for birdie, zero for par, minus-one for bogey and minus-three for double bogey or worse. Jonathan Byrd and Andres Romero tied for second with 35 points, and Brendon Steele had 33 at Montreux Golf Club on the edge of the Sierra. Woodland, also the 2011 Transitions Championship winner as a tour rookie, earned $540,000 for the victory and got a spot next week in the PGA Championship. "It felt like it was meant to be this week," said Woodland, whose best finishes this year had been three ties for 16th at the Phoenix Open, Memorial and AT&T National. "I tried to stay calm and really focus on what I was doing." Byrd had an eagle, seven birdies and a bogey to set a single-day scoring record with 18 Stableford points that would have equaled a round of 64 under the usual format. Dicky Pride and David Mathis tied for fifth with 32 points, followed by Seung-Yui Noh and Rory Sabatini with 31, and Chris DiMarco with 30. David Toms and Stuart Applebby tied for 16th with 26 points. Ottawas Brad Fritsch had six points to finish with 25, to tie for 20th place. His round featured a hole-in-one and a pair of birdies. Woodland, the 2011 PGA Tour rookie of the year who played basketball at Washburn before transferring to Kansas and becominng a golfer for the Jayhawks, didnt have a bogey Sunday until the 17th hole thanks to some nifty work around the greens getting up and down to save par five times on the day.dddddddddddd "Even though I wasnt hitting greens I was hitting it in the right spots and gave myself opportunities to get up and down," he said. On the front nine, Woodland had sand saves out of three greenside bunkers and made his only birdie from 7 feet on the par-3 second. After he drove into the waste area on the 367-yard, par-4 14th, he hit 20 yards over the green into the rough before watching his 58-foot chip roll against the pin and into the cup. He added a 21-foot birdie putt on the next hole to open up an eight-point lead over the late-charging Byrd and Woodlands playing partner Steele, who made his birdie putt ahead of Woodland on the 15th. "To follow up after Brendon Steele made the putt on 15, to answer him was huge," Woodland said. "He had a lot of momentum and I sort of stole it all back and sort of rode it the rest of the way." He closed with a birdie on the 616-yard 18th when he drove 338 yards into the middle of the fairway, hit his approach 231 yards just in front of the green, chipped to 2 feet and tapped in for the win that also earned him his tour card for the next two years and boosted him from 116th to 54th in the FedExCup standings. Byrd birdied five of his first seven holes then eagled the par-5 13th when he hit his second shot 219 yards to inside 7 feet. "My whole mindset was just to be a little more aggressive and give ourselves chances and just free it up," he said. "And I was able to do that today getting off to a hot start. ... Just felt like I was off to the races." Romero, who finished third at Reno last year and was this years second-round leader, had five birdies and a bogey to jump from 137th to 110th in FedExCup points. The top 125 advance to the playoffs. ' ' '