Pod controlled by StatefulSet is stuck in ContainerCreating state

kubectl get pods

md-0                    1/1       Running             0          4h        10.242.208.59   node-5
md-1                    1/1       Running             0          4h        10.242.160.36   node-6
md-2                    0/1       ContainerCreating   0          4h        <none>          node-6

kubectl describe pod md-2

Conditions:
  Type              Status
  Initialized       True 
  Ready             False 
  ContainersReady   False 
  PodScheduled      True 
...
Events:
  Type     Reason                  Age               From                                 Message
  ----     ------                  ----              ----                                 -------
  Warning  FailedCreatePodSandBox  2m (x68 over 4h)  kubelet, node-6  Failed create pod sandbox: rpc error: code = DeadlineExceeded desc = context deadline exceeded

kubectl describe statefulset md

Replicas:           3 desired | 3 total
Pods Status:        2 Running / 1 Waiting / 0 Succeeded / 0 Failed
...
Events:                         <none>

kubelet log from node-6

RunPodSandbox from runtime service failed: rpc error: code = DeadlineExceeded desc = context deadline exceeded
CreatePodSandbox for pod "md-2_exc(a995dd3d-158d-11e9-967b-6cb311235088)" failed: rpc error: code = DeadlineExceeded desc = context deadline exceeded
createPodSandbox for pod "md-2_exc(a995dd3d-158d-11e9-967b-6cb311235088)" failed: rpc error: code = DeadlineExceeded desc = context deadline exceeded
Error syncing pod a995dd3d-158d-11e9-967b-6cb311235088 ("md-2_exc(a995dd3d-158d-11e9-967b-6cb311235088)"), skipping: failed to "CreatePodSandbox" for "md-2_exc(a995dd3d-158d-11e9-967b-6cb311235088)" with CreatePodSandboxError: "CreatePodSandbox for pod \"md-2_exc(a995dd3d-158d-11e9-967b-6cb311235088)\" failed: rpc error: code = DeadlineExceeded desc = context deadline exceeded"

I have two other StatefulSets and they works as expected. For some reason this one is broken. Also direct kubectl run and docker run works fine.

update 2019-01-18

After restoration of change's timeline I see that this specific pod was deleted with docker command bypassing kubernetes.

Probably this somehow corrupted kubernetes' state or something.

After numerous searching, asking and troubleshooting I still could not find what's exactly wrong. So I had to restart kubelet (systemctl restart kubelet) on node where pod was assigned. And the issue is gone.

I hoped to understand how to check what exactly wrong with kubernetes (or kubelet?) but could not find any clues. And kubelet behavior remains black box in this case.