That’s disappointing to hear since this really isn’t an issue with our TVs. I’ve had all auto dimming turned off ever since I bought mine and no other game besides NHL 22 looks worse with HDR on. I’ve messed with every single brightness setting and nothing changes the dull HDR. I’m sure if it was our TVs that there would have been a single post over the last 6 months of someone saying that they had this issue, but fixed it using their TV settings.
Can a setting be added to the game to disable HDR in the ingame menus? There’s no reason to turn off HDR in the system settings for only one game.
At this point I guess we can only hope the HDR is better in NHL 23.