honorable mention means that you are deserving of the honor but not better than the players that made the teams ahead of you. Or that your coach didn't complain enough at a meeting.
Looking at this list, i could not agree more it looks a lot more like a popularity contest. Its a joke, look at the D3 goalies for example. Curran got second team despite playing a more challenging schedule, posting more saves, a better goals against average more saves and facing almost a hundred more shots, all while not playing behind a zone defense. Kid got less love cause he was from the odac.