SAN JOSE – The San Jose Sharks debuted a new goal song at SAP Center on Thursday night, and they hope it will last longer than the previous track.

After winger Mason Marchment scored at the 14:20 mark of the first period to give the Sharks a 1-0 lead, the team debuted a song featuring Green Day’s guitar riff from their 2005 hit, “Holiday,” with fans chanting “Hey” as the track played. The Sharks wanted a song from an artist with Bay Area ties, and Green Day was originally formed in Rodeo.

After months of public outcry for a new, non-AI-generated goal song, the Sharks announced via social media — with help from defenseman Sam Dickinson — on Sept. 21 that they would have a new one for 2026-27, starting with Thursday’s season-opening game against the Florida Panthers.

Before the 2025-26 season began, the Sharks decided they needed a new goal song after using “Get Ready For This” by 2 Unlimited for most of the previous nine years and paying royalties.

Elevated season ticket holders chose from four new selections created by music producer BVRNOUT and picked a track called “Power Bite,” which first debuted during a game against the Vegas Golden Knights on Oct. 9, 2025, before a sold-out Shark Tank crowd.

Mason Marchment, a former Jr. Shark, scores the first goal of the Sharks season, and the new goal song debuts pic.twitter.com/RXJ8ikoJPC

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Sharks fans never warmed up to the song, which the team said it would fully own and was “planning to use it beyond the arena on digital platforms and through remixes.” The song was widely suspected to be AI-generated after members of the Sharks’ subreddit discovered it sounded similar to another AI-generated remix called “Sharky Party.”

The “Power Bite” song got two last spins at SAP Center during the team’s two preseason games, a 2-1 shootout loss to the Vegas Golden Knights on Sept. 22 and a 10-0 win over the Anaheim Ducks on Sept. 24.

Will Smith was one of the Sharks players who heard the new song last month and said he liked the track.

Asked if it was an actual song by an actual artist, Smith said, “I don’t even know if I’m supposed to be talking about this,” Smith said with a smile.