Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins

In this week's Sports Voices, Roger and Bob talk in the WVIA Podcast Studio about the girls basketball season so far, next Tuesday's Wilkes-Barre Area vs. Pittston Area boys basketball matchup in the Wyoming Valley Conference, the rise of girls wrestling, and how the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins are at the top of the AHL's Atlantic Division.

With presents unwrapped and with most schools closed for winter break through next week, it’s now time to keep the family active until the normal routine of work and school.

In this week's Sports Voices, FOX56's Bob Ide says high school football is over, and winter sports like wrestling, swimming and basketball are 'coming into their own.' Lackawanna League and the Wyoming Valley conference basketball games begin, plus Ide discusses 'the next Gerry McNamara' and the latest on the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins and the Philadelphia Eagles.

ICE arrested three employees of a Honesdale restaurant late last week. And a ketamine clinic in Luzerne County hopes to reduce stigma around medical use of the drug.

The hockey team's loss Friday to the Lehigh Valley Phantoms led to organization changes over the weekend.

After losing game one in a best-of-three series, the Pens will push for a win against the Lehigh Valley Phantoms in Allentown Friday night. If necessary, the first round series will return to Mohegan Sun Arena on Sunday.

A former Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins forward passed away unexpectedly Monday at the age of 42. Konstantin Koltsov played parts of three seasons in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton between 2002 and 2006. He later went on to play 144 games in the NHL with the Pittsburgh Penguins. The team says Koltsov is remembered for “one of the most famous moments in team history.” He scored an overtime goal in first round of the 2004 Calder Cup Playoffs against the Bridgeport Sound Tigers. Koltsov was a native of Minsk, Belarus, and played in the Winter Olympics for the Belarusian national team in 2002 and 2010. The Miami-Dade Police called Koltsov’s death “an apparent suicide," according to the Associated Press.