EDMONTON — Up here in their little corner of a Pacific Division they’ve won for the past two seasons, the Edmonton Oilers are watching the mayhem around them, whistling quietly as their own season finally comes together.

A fired coach in Vegas. The daily recording of new lows in Vancouver. The plucky, rebuilding Flames, finally winning games at the worst possible time, and a San Jose team that looked so good only two weeks ago, suddenly tied for 28th and vying for another high pick.

Anaheim and Los Angeles are likely feeling the same way as Edmonton, three teams that like their circumstances — until they compare them to all those aforementioned teams. Then they like it even more.

“I love the direction that it’s going right now,” said Jack Roslovic, who became Edmonton’s fifth 20-goal scorer when he slid one home Saturday against Anaheim in Edmonton’s third straight win.

Roslovic played for John Tortorella in Columbus and isn’t surprised to see him back behind an NHL bench.

“I think he just misses it,” Roslovic said. “He lives on a lot of land. Maybe he gets lonely.”

Nobody wants to have too loud an opinion on your chief rival’s coaching change. Roslovic prefers a quiet role as part of the new blood in Edmonton, a........

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