Scott Morrow making the most of his chance in Rangers lineup with Sean Durzi out

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Morrow’s play and contributions will make it difficult for head coach Mike Sullivan to take him out of the lineup.

By the end of the sequence, when Alexis Lafrenière flew across the crease and tucked a goal into the Canucks net Friday, Scott Morrow’s contribution flew under the radar. But at the other end of the ice, late in the second period of the Rangers’ eventual 5-1 win, Morrow — one of the final players on the roster out of training camp who watched the first 14 games from the press box — managed to back-check the puck away from Brendan Gallagher, with both of his knees hitting the ice, to start the rush.

To Tom Upton, the Brown men’s ice hockey head coach who was an assistant at UMass during Morrow’s final two seasons there, moments like that capture urgency in a game. And for Morrow, the 24-year-old whose brief career to this point has relied on patience, his latest Rangers chance has been full of it. With Sean Durzi out the past seven games with an undisclosed injury, Morrow went from not playing at all to becoming a contributor on the blue line while playing alongside rookie Alberts Smits and Matthew Robertson.

His window of opportunity might be fleeting. Durzi, who skated on the second pairing before his injury, will return eventually, and Braden Schneider — on the third pairing — has been a staple in the lineup for years. But Morrow’s play and contributions will make it difficult for head coach Mike Sullivan to take him out of the lineup, with his plus-3 mark evidence of that.

“Three, four years ago, maybe he doesn’t come back on that puck as hard and come into his zone as hard,” Upton told The Post on Saturday after hearing about Morrow’s back-check. “But he knows he needs to continue to do those little things to stay at that level and compete at that level, so that adds to that urgency, right?”

The strong contributions from Morrow have also validated the Blueshirts decision to keep eight defensemen out of training camp and avoid the gamble of losing Morrow on waivers.

Morrow’s ability to create space for himself and create offense for others led to him collecting six…

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