EDMONTON, Alberta — Drew Remenda looks back on how his life has changed in the last six months and has come up with a simple explanation as to why he’s now a TV analyst covering the Edmonton Oilers and not the San Jose Sharks.

“The bottom line is they just stopped liking what I was doing,” Remenda said hours before those two teams met for the first time this season. “I serve at the pleasure of the people above me. They listened to what I was doing, saw what I was doing and stopped liking what I was doing. That’s the only way that I can explain it and that’s fine.”

Officially, Sharks chief operating officer John Tortora told Remenda the team decided it wanted to take it’s broadcasts in another direction. But Remenda doesn’t hide the fact he was heart-broken at the time and sees general manager Doug Wilson as the more likely driving force.

And why does Remenda believe the Sharks stopped liking what he was doing?

“Who knows? That’s a question I can’t answer. That’s a question that Doug Wilson or John Tortora or even Hasso would have to answer,” Remenda said, including majority owner Hasso Plattner in the process.

“They were overly nice,” Remenda continued. “They didn’t come out and say ‘We don’t like you because . . . and we don’t want you to do this job anymore because . . . ‘ They took my feelings into account.”

Remenda was not out of work long, hired by Sportsnet as TV analyst for an Oilers team that plays five hours from Remenda’s home in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. That was an important plus.

But Remenda doesn’t pretend that his loyalties have shifted from the Sharks to the Oilers. With San Jose, it was more personal; here, it’s a professional connection.

“I’m not entrenched in the team’s culture here at all. It’s very different. With the Sharks, I worked for the Sharks. With these guys, I work for Sportsnet,” Remenda said. “If you talk to the coaching staff here, I’m media. With the Sharks — even though I wasn’t part of the team, I was part of the team.”

Remenda’s first job with the Sharks was on the coaching staff during the team’s inaugural seasons and he worked hard to gain access to the coaching staff’s that followed.

Not to say that Remenda isn’t enjoying his new gig. Sportsnet holds the national TV contract — a $5.2 billion, 12-year deal — and Remenda says his new bosses, in contrast with those in San Jose, are happy with his work.

“I’ve had four phone calls from my bosses in the time that I’ve been doing this job and everyone of them was complimentary, to the point where it’s weirded me out,” Remenda related. “What I said to my boss, ‘Usually when my bosses call in my past job, it wasn’t to say I was doing a good job.’ “

Remenda said he had been looking forward to Sunday night’s game because it was a chance to see good friends, starting with coach Todd McLellan.

“It’s more that my friends are coming to town and I get to see them and I get to talk to them,” Remenda said. “That’s the best part.”

But it also will remind him of something he’s lost.

“Tonight, I’m glad to see them here,” Remenda said. “But when they get back on the plane and go to San Jose, I’m not on that plane.”

For more on the Sharks, see David Pollak’s Working the Corners blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/sharks. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/PollakOnSharks.