How cool would it be to stand at a urinal next to Mario Lemiux or Sidney Crosby?

Well, pervert, you may get your chance!

The Pittsburgh Penguins are looking for 250 students to help with an important task and there’s only one major requirement: You must know how to flush a toilet.

Construction is near completion on the Penguins’ new arena, the Consol Energy Center. But like with any new arena or stadium, officials need to simultaneously flush all the toilets and urinals to make sure everything is working. The Penguins are calling the June 10 event the “Student Flush,” a spin-off of their popular ticketing program known as “Student Rush.”

Students already involved in the ticketing program can enter for a chance to win. Students must be 18 or older to participate in the flush-apalooza.

In all, there will be 400 flushers, including some construction officials, on hand that day. Who knows, maybe Jaromir Jagr shows up, drops a deucer (to help out the cause!) and you get to rub elbows with some hockey legends?  If you’re within a 3 hour drive of Pittsburgh, DON’T MISS THIS!

Washington has become a tough place recently, we’ve all seen it.  But politics has nothing to do with this.  Capitals forward Eric Belanger certainly upped the ante in the “Who’s the toughest S.O.B. in the NHL” discussion.  Ian LaPerriere, you have company.

Belanger says Saturday he “felt my teeth shatter, right away,” when Canadiens defenseman Marc-Andre Bergeron’s stick hit him in the mouth in the first period of Montreal’s 2-1 victory at Washington in Game 5 of their playoff series Friday night.

Belanger needed some serious dental work at the arena, getting exposed tooth roots trimmed — then returned to the ice midway through the third period.

Said Belanger, “I knew I was in trouble, but what are you going to do? It’s the playoffs.”

Sure. Of course.  It’s the playoffs.

Below are early rankings for the Top Forwards in the NHL next season.  Some will be looking for new teams, others will be looking at new, increased roles after a supremely productive season.  Oh, and surprise, surprise: Ovie is still number one.

1. Alex Ovechkin, LW, Washington Capitals: He missed a handful of games and still finished well ahead of the pack as the best fantasy skater this season. No doubt Ovechkin is the No. 1 pick next season.

2. Sidney Crosby, C, Pittsburgh Penguins: Crosby is fighting to add a Rocket Richard Trophy to his case as the league leader for goals; just more résumé padding for Sid the Kid. His value seems to come from different categories from year to year. It’s a testament to his ability to adapt and still lead.

3. Nicklas Backstrom, C, Washington Capitals: The one thing you can always count on is seeing Backstrom on the ice with Ovechkin. Sure, a lot of this ranking has to do with his ice time beside the game’s best player, but that won’t change next season once the Caps work out his restricted free-agent status.

4. Steven Stamkos, C, Tampa Bay Lightning: Stamkos was easily the most surprising and impressive climber in the fantasy realm this season. Despite a solid rookie season, few pegged him to flirt with 90 points this year. Thanks to his power-play numbers, he will consistently be among the first five taken in drafts.

5. Daniel Sedin, LW, Vancouver Canucks: It’s hard to believe he missed 19 games this season, yet still almost paced his brother Henrik for overall value. It goes to show that goals are that much better than assists in the ESPN standard game. Barring injuries, Daniel will continue to be better than Henrik.

6. Pavel Datsyuk, C, Detroit: Overall, Datsyuk had a disappointing 2009, tying for 26th most points in the NHL.  Expect the Russian to rebound next year and vault back up draft boards in the process.

7. Dany Heatley, RW, San Jose Sharks: Will Heatley be as good without Patrick Marleau? Yeah, he will. Joe Thornton  is the one setting up. In fact, without someone of Marleau’s caliber on the opposite wing, maybe Heatley is even better.

8. Marcin Gaborik, RW, New York Rangers: Gaborik enjoyed his first season away from the Minnesota Wild, amassing the fifth most goals in the NHL on a Rangers team that was up-and-down all season.  When healthy (that’s always a question mark), Gaborik hovers around the top-5 in the league.  Look for him to fall on draft day when general managers get iffy.

9. Zach Parise, LW, New Jersey Devils: Parise silenced any doubters after his incredible 2008-09 season. He lost a few points, a few plus/minus numbers and a few shots on goal, but not nearly enough to knock him out of the top 10. Fantasy owners would be more than happy to settle for a repeat of the ‘09-10 numbers next season.

10. Henrik Sedin, C, Vancouver Canucks: Overall, the Twins finally had the big season everyone has been waiting for since they broke into the league. They had started to look like they might top out as point-per-game players in the NHL, but this season has catapulted them into a new realm.

After finishing with a league-low 62 points, the Edmonton Oilers have won the NHL draft lottery for the first overall pick in June.

The Oilers did okay when they drafted this guy, right?

Boston, the sixth seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs, will pick second in the June 25-26 draft after acquiring Toronto’s first-round pick in an offseason trade that sent Phil Kessel to the Maple Leafs. The Oilers (27-47-8) came into the annual lottery Tuesday with a 25 percent chance of securing the top pick and will select first for the first time. Florida will select third, followed by Columbus and the New York Islanders — who picked first in 2009. Tampa Bay, Carolina, Atlanta, Minnesota and the New York Rangers round out the top 10.

Barring a trade, the Oilers will become the first Canadian team to select first since 1996, when Ottawa chose defenseman Chris Phillips.

“It’s such an important step for us to have the ability to take the first overall pick, especially where we are with our cycle of development,” Oilers general manager Steve Tambellini said. “We’re more into a reshaping, a rebuilding mode right now. Everybody’s clear about that. This will be a wonderful building block to add on to some of the other draft choices we have in place now.”

If the Oilers keep the selection, they will likely choose between Ontario Hockey League stars Taylor Hall and Tyler Seguin. The two ended up tied atop the league’s scoring race with 106 points, with Seguin claiming the scoring title after finishing with 48 goals to Hall’s 40. The Bruins’ pick will be the highest for the franchise since it made Joe Thornton the No. 1 overall selection in 1997. When GM Peter Chiarelli sent Kessel to Toronto in September, he never imagined he’d find himself in position to land either Hall or Seguin.

“No, not really,” Chiarelli said. “We had a range in mind, we had to choose between the Leafs and a couple other teams, and we kind of had a range in mind. But not this high, no.” After trading away their 2008-09 goals leader in Kessel — and losing playmaker Marc Savard for half the year to a concussion — the Bruins finished last in the NHL with 196 goals. A strong defense and solid goaltending helped Boston get into the playoffs.

Balls representing the 14 teams that failed to make the playoffs were in play, and only one was selected. The winner could move up a maximum of four positions, so only the bottom five teams in the league standings had a shot at the top pick. Edmonton’s victory continued the recent trend of last-place teams winning the draft lottery. St. Louis Blues used the No. 1 pick to select defenseman Erik Johnson in 2006, Tampa Bay selected Steven Stamkos first overall in 2008 and the Islanders chose John Tavares with the top pick last year.