The San Jose Sharks are trying to build something real again, and their fans want the soundtrack to match.
After a 2025-26 breakout powered by the emergence of Macklin Celebrini and the rest of a young, promising roster, San Jose has moved out of the NHL basement and into legitimate playoff talk for 2026-27. That kind of turnaround changes the mood around a franchise.
It changes expectations. And, according to a loud chunk of the fanbase, it should change the goal song too.
When the Sharks’ social media team posted on X on Sept. 8 asking fans to help shape preseason and future in-arena presentation - “With preseason games right around the corner, we want your help making them the best they can be! You’ll have the opportunity to vote on different elements of in-arena experience and help us test what could become part of the future of Sharks Event Presentation.
Stay tuned.” - the replies quickly turned into a referendum on “Power Bite” by BVRNOUT. Sharks fans made one thing plain: they want it gone.
That reaction has been building since the song debuted in 2025. The biggest complaint is simple enough: many fans say it sounds like “AI slop.”
More than that, they feel it just doesn’t carry the weight or personality of the goal songs San Jose has used before. On the team’s website, the Sharks said, “By creating a new song, the Sharks will have full ownership of the song and plan to use it beyond the arena on digital platforms and through re-mixes.”
Some fans have taken that to mean the club is trying to save money instead of leaning into a more recognizable track. That’s speculation, but the pressure to make a switch is very real.
The backlash isn’t limited to X, either. On Reddit, Sharks fans have posted multiple petitions pushing for the song’s removal and asking for just about anything else in its place. With the franchise finally showing real life again, supporters clearly want the game-night experience to feel like part of the new era, not a holdover from the dark years.
San Jose’s goal-song history helps explain why this has become such a sore spot. For 23 of the franchise’s first 24 seasons, the Sharks used Gary Glitter’s “Rock and Roll, Part 2.”
Green Day’s “Holiday” filled in during the 2006-07 season, but fans didn’t embrace it. The second run of “Rock and Roll, Part 2” ended because of the artist’s very serious criminal convictions.
Then came “Get Ready for This” by 2 Unlimited, which arrived in the Sharks’ 25th anniversary season and lasted 11 years before “Power Bite” took over in 2025.
That history matters because the best goal songs do more than play after a score. They become part of the team’s identity.
The article points to the Chicago Blackhawks as the model. Their use of “Chelsea Dagger” by The Fratellis became a signature sound during their run in the 2010s, and it was chosen from six possibilities for the 2008-09 season.
It arrived just as Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane were beginning their careers, and as Chicago moved from terrible to dominant. In 2019, in a poll of 48 of the NHL’s top players, the Blackhawks had the best goal song by a wide margin.
“I hate hearing it, but it is nice,” then Minnesota Wild defenseman Mathew Dumba said. “But I don’t want to hear it all year.
It’s brutally good. I can hear it right now.”
San Jose doesn’t need to copy Chicago note for note, but the comparison is the point. If the Sharks are entering a new phase with Celebrini and a deeper, more intriguing pipeline, the in-arena sound should feel like it belongs to the moment. Fans would also welcome a song tied to the Bay Area’s own music history, whether that means rock names like Metallica, The Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Green Day, and Santana or rap artists like E-40, Too $hort, and Mac Dre.
The question facing the Sharks is whether they want the backdrop for the next big moment at the Shark Tank to be “Power Bite” or something that feels bigger. If Celebrini scores his first playoff goal there, the song behind it will become part of the memory. And with as much excitement as there’s been around this team in years, a fresh goal song would be a simple way to signal that the future has arrived.
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