Hits to the Head and GM Meeting

I'm sure by now you have all seen the Chara hit on Max Pacioretty, if you're like the many Montreal Canadiens fans out there, you saw the hit and expected a suspension to Chara. Well as you know this did not occur, however, what did happen was the NHL General Managers held a meeting in Florida to discuss what could be done to curb the amount of head injuries that occur in the NHL and subsequently how to handle one when and if it does occur. Personally I'm with the larger percentage of the GMs and the hockey analysts out there that feel this was just a hockey play gone bad. Now, there's no way to know for certain if it was premeditated, but for now, let's presume that NHL players have respect for one another, and that in no way could this hit be seen as intentional. Moving on, since I think there has been way too much coverage of the incident. I'm not saying that it should be forgotten about, I'm saying, focus on Pacioretty getting better, and not what caused his injuries... The GM meetings that recently took place, have made tremendous effort to curb the amount of hits to the head with new standards, that include, revision of equipment, new disciplinary actions such as penalties levied to the player and team. The biggest, and best of the Bettman's 5 point plan, having a Doctor, not the team trainer, examine a player in a quiet area, to best determine if a concussion has been sustained. In my opinion this seems to be one of those, "We should have done this years ago" things. I'm very happy to see that this will be put in place, though if it could have only been implemented mere months ago maybe some of todays top stars wouldn't be out of their respective lineups for immeasurable amounts of time while trying to get better. Baseball fans know that Justin Morneau had been sidelined with a concussion since early July of last year.
These issues seem to be the forefront of hockey these days and though without them taking centre stage changes may not have come, but my question is, why did it need to take so long, why are we just now figuring out how and when to diagnose potential concussions, why only now are physicians diagnosing players?
Here's to the GMs of the NHL and Gary Bettman.

Just putting it out there.

Scott