Other notable players are Mark Ardelan,[10] Ryan Mior,[11] Farzad Khojasteh[12] and Arian Ali-Zade.

In July 2015, Taylan Aytac from Turkey,[18][19] taught in Iran's first ice hockey workshop which was held in Aramis Sports Complex in Tehran, which was also attended by Iranian trainee-instructors Pooya Ghandali and Saman Goodarzi.

[23] As of 2015, Iran decided to form a national ice hockey team with the intention of participating at the 2017 Asian Winter Games.

A team was formed in the first quarter of 2016 after Iran made a campaign of recruiting players of Iranian heritage who live abroad.

In order to fast track the creation of a national team, the coaching staff decided that it would be best to select players from the Iranian inline hockey national team powered by hockey players of Iranian-origin from abroad.

[24] In 2016, three national camps were held, 26–28 June in Asiago (Italy), 20–27 August in Almaty (Kazakhstan) and 21–24 December in Dubai (United Arab Emirates).