Excuse me if you consider this cherry-picking, but the extent and area growth of late seems to me extraordinary and insane especially during this out-of-control climate change we keep hearing about.
if you'd read a bit before jumping to the obvious in biased terms you would know that:
the less ice there is in summer and considering that the arctic as a whole will freeze over for some time to come in winter, the steeper that curve will be at given times during refreeze. once the peripherals won't freeze like before, the differences between the years will be smaller because the inner arctic will mostly freeze for quite some time to come as mentioned above.
last but not least there will be some kind of change between the years, one year a given region will be cooler and another wamer than previous and/or other years and there will always be people who do exactly that, they cherry pick and say whow.
IMO we could even see a slight slow down in refreeze in hudson because as per now temps turn into positive anomaly. it depends a bit on the real temps because it was and is so cold now that it could still refreeze normally following the quick-freeze of the last few days with extra extreme cold anomalies that served as a kick-starter for that region.
however all that is, we still see regions that are open water that were frozen even during some summers in the past, cherry-picking those will draw another picture as you are certainly aware.
last but not least a doubt clean motives from your side what else would be the reason to post that way. your words can be translated into clear speech and what they mean is not nice.