MONTREAL — With the scoreboard clock ticking down to two-and-a-half minutes remaining, and the Rangers desperately trying to get the tying goal against the Edmonton Oilers and goalie Stuart Skinner, fourth-line center Sam Carrick drove to the net and fired a low shot toward the far post that Skinner snatched with his catching glove.

It was the 29th of 30 saves Skinner made that night in the Oilers’ 2-0 win at Madison Square Garden Tuesday , and it was one of three shots on goal Carrick had, which doesn’t include the one he rang off the crossbar late in the second period. But the most telling thing was that Carrick and his linemates, Adam Edstrom and Matt Rempe, were on the ice late in a one-goal game.

It spoke a lot to the kind of faith coach Mike Sullivan has in his fourth line. And t

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