The winter hasn't started yet, so I would prefer to abstain from doomsday scenarios. So far - yes, Kara is open, Chukchi is open, and there is no telling when either of them or Bering/Barents will start producing sea ice. But this does not mean that this winter will necessarily be worse than others. Given a month with the right weather, sea ice will return to a more "normal" pattern.
Reminds me too much of people embarrassing themselves with boasting of "record large" sea ice extents in April 2012. Extent is anyway a bad measure. And to my knowledge, any volume measure is yet to achieve record-low values, isn't it?