I have a few problems with youre statements. First Princeton always starts slow! This seems curious for a team that has won 6 National Championships in the last 10 years. For arguments sake lets consider the first 5 games of the season is the start.

During the span from 1990 through 2001 Princeton is 46-14; thats a 77% winning percentage, with losses to virginia, Hopkins, syracuse, loyola and UNC. This is hardly indictative of a team that starts slow. Aslo, half of those loses came in 3 seasons! This does not unto itself condemn Princeton's season yet because they have only played one game. So lets look at the manor in which they lost.

Of the fourteen losses, nine have been by 2 or less goals. Only 2 losses by greater than 2 goal differential have been in seasons when they won they championship. Those seasons being '01 and '96.

Now, lets look at Princeton's Offensive woes yesterday. They scored five goals, three of which came with under 6 minutes left. An output of five goals ties Princeton for their third lowest offensive out put since '90. Twice they scored 4 and twice 5 goals including yesterday. Never has Princeton won a National Championship in a year with any of the above losses.

Now from having been at yesterdays game, unless Princeton players had one of its most apethetic played games under Teirney, unlikely or their are offensive problems at princeton this year! With out a great performance by a first time goalie(Gould) and alot of poor shots by youthful players(Hopkins, this game could have looked alot worse. Also With 6 minutes remaining the score was 7-2.

Also, Princeton only lost 1 game last year.

This said maybe Princeton had a terrible day, or maybe they have alot of problems to work out. Personally, I'll go with history and say They have alot of problems!