‘Issues’ keep Khudobin out of net

Dallas Stars goaltender Anton Khudobin will miss Sunday’s game against Chicago because of an undisclosed “internal issue.”

Stars head coach Rick Bowness refused to say specifically why the goaltender will not play. He said Khudobin will be listed as day to day.

“I have very few rules, but you damn well better follow them,” Bowness said Saturday, without explanation.

Rookie Jake Oettinger will start against the Blackhawks.

The Stars are winless (0-2-1) in Khudobin’s last three starts. He allowed 11 goals in those road games. á Werenski sidelined: The Columbus Blue Jackets have lost one of their most valuable defencemen with Zach Werenski being placed on injured reserve Saturday.

The 23-year-old all-star suffered an unspecified lower body injury in Thursday’s win over Dallas and is expected to miss at least a week.

Werenski limped off the ice late in the Dallas game. Paired with Seth Jones on the top defensive line, he has a goal and three assists in 12 games. á Marching the wrong way? Some eyebrows were raised this week when Chris Drury, the assistant GM of the New York Rangers, reportedly turned down a chance to interview for the GM job in Pittsburgh. That led some, including Joe Starkey of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, to wonder if the job was viewed as a career killer, despite having Sidney Crosby.

“Who wants to be the guy to preside over what many see as the inevitable fall of the Penguins, which some predict will be as ugly as the fall of the Blackhawks?” Starkey wrote. “Would you ever see a second job?”

Still, Starkey expects the Penguins will attract strong candidates, citing a report from TSN’s Pierre LeBrun that Ron Hextall, Tom Fitzgerald, Peter Chiarelli and former Penguins assistant GM Jason Botterill could be among them.