How do you convince one of the best hockey players in the world to stay with your favorite team? You could always follow Sharks fan Emily Hall’s lead.
Hall wrote and sang “Time Is Nigh,” a parody of Blondie’s 1980 hit “The Tide Is High” centered on San Jose defenseman (and pending free agent) Erik Karlsson.
When Blondie came on while she was grocery shopping back in December -- in an aisle with teal gummy sharks and Swedish Fish, no less -- she had her inspiration.
“I’m like, (singing) ‘the tide is high … the time is nigh,’ and literally that’s how it hits me,” Hall recalled in a phone interview with NBC Sports California on Wednesday.