Wack Wednesday: An NHL Team's Custom Goal Song Was Probably Made by Typing Lyrics Into Suno
The San Jose Sharks quietly retired their custom goal song, 'Power Bite,' after internet detectives traced its producer to a Suno-generated remix with the same lyrics -- a one-season run that ended the moment anyone actually checked.
By Song Reviews · October 14, 2026
What Wack Wednesday Is
Every Wednesday, Song Reviews covers the week’s weirdest music story – AI experiments, novelty tracks, bizarre genre collisions, and the internet phenomena that don’t fit anywhere else on the calendar.
This Week’s Weirdness
For the 2025-26 season, the San Jose Sharks commissioned “Power Bite,” a custom goal song from DJ and producer BVRNOUT, and played it at SAP Center every time the team scored. It lasted exactly one season. Internet sleuths went digging after fans noticed the track had an oddly generic, assembled quality, and found what appeared to be BVRNOUT’s own profile on Suno, the AI music generator, hosting an earlier remix called “Sharky Party” with lyrics and an instrumental foundation strikingly close to “Power Bite.” The Sharks organization, when asked, said BVRNOUT denied using AI – and then faced its own round of fan backlash for sitting on that denial rather than addressing the discovery directly. On October 1, when the Sharks opened their new season against the Florida Panthers, “Power Bite” was gone, replaced at SAP Center by Green Day’s “Holiday.”
What makes this one genuinely strange, rather than just another entry in a very long 2026 column of AI-music disputes, is the venue. A professional sports team’s goal song is about as low-stakes and disposable a piece of music as exists – fifteen seconds of hype, played dozens of times a game, forgotten the second the puck drops again – and it still wasn’t disposable enough to escape scrutiny once fans had a Suno profile and a lyric match to compare against. If an NHL team’s bespoke arena jingle gets fact-checked down to its AI-generation platform by motivated amateurs with a search bar, there is functionally no corner of commercial music left where “nobody’s going to check” is still a safe bet.
The replacement tells its own small story too. Faced with a credibility problem, the Sharks didn’t commission another bespoke track – they reached for “Holiday,” a 22-year-old Green Day song with no attribution questions attached to it at all. Sometimes the safest answer to “is this real” is just picking something old enough that nobody has to ask.
Hero image: SAP Center at night, San Jose, 2019, by Sean Horan (Combuchan), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.