"We're about a half year into it, and we've instilled a significant amount of philosophical change in scouting and player development, some personnel change," he said that month. "We've done a pretty good job maximizing our opportunities to acquire young talent, whether in the draft or in trades or international signings. We'd like to do more of that. We've stayed fairly disciplined when it comes to executing our plan. But there's a lot more work to do.