I forgot the LA game, but I had the other games in mind. The "better metrics" were largely a product of score effects and venue (vegas, colorado) or the team has below average 5v5 metrics in general (blues). the blues were also on the second game of a road b2b (teams on the second game of road b2b have an average of ~46% corsi IIRC). To be fair, this game was also the 2nd game of a b2b, but it was the predators and score effect should've been in our favor, so yeah...
I'll admit my standard of decent play is very high, but considering our cap situation/trades, it's fair to consider how the flames' recent performances compare to the panthers, wild, leafs or the canes as opposed to random teams like the caps, preds, etc.