NEW YORK — The sound system in the visiting locker room at Madison Square Garden has gotten a bit of a workout lately.

On Tuesday night, it was Jon Pardi’s “Hard Knocks” blasting from the bowels of the World’s Most Famous Arena as the New York Rangers’ Jekyll and Hyde act — they’re 0-5-1 at home and 6-1-1 on the road — continued with a 3-0 shutout loss to the Carolina Hurricanes.

Yet another team celebrating in their building.

As the Blueshirts act in Manhattan has become a bit of a tired one, having scored one goal or less in five of their six home games, including four shutouts, the focus in the nationally televised contest instead rightfully shifted to a franchise that seems on the right track to return to the Eastern Conference Final for the third time in the last four seasons.

Carolina is the third seed in the Metropolitan Division and has been one of the more steady franchises in the East for nearly the last decade, having made the postseason in each of the last seven years. It’s off to an 8-4-0 start this season, having made only smaller tweaks to the roster, adding former Rangers defenseman K’Andre Miller, who missed Tuesday night’s game due to injury, and Danish forward Nikolai Ehlers, who scored what turned out to be the game-winning goal at the 13:30 mark of the opening period.

The goal came not long after the Rangers, desperate to perform at home, mounted a charge in which they recorded 11 shots on goal in less than eight minutes of play.  How big was it for the Hurricane to be able to withstand that anticipated early push?

“Obviously huge,” Ehlers said. “Any time you can go on the road and keep it 0-0 after the first five or ten minutes or be up is the first win. These guys have gotten after it; obviously not the start they wanted, but you can see how they’ve changed and are playing good hockey, and you saw that today as well. So, it was a big win.”

That win was cemented by a mix of a dominant third period on their part, as well as a lackluster showing by the Rangers; Carolina smothered them to the tune of allowing just one shot on goal in the final 20 minutes, something head coach Rod Brind’Amour said is simply doing things the right way.

“That’s the way you want to play,” he said. “We’re still looking for that next one, and I thought we pushed for it, it’s just being smarter and making sure you’re playing the game the right way, and I thought we did that.”