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12. Thanks to certified hockey fanatic Dave "Uncle Joey" Coulier, Candace met her first real boyfriend/future husband, Russian-born athlete Valeri Bure, at a charity game held in Ontario, Canada, in October 1994 in the middle of an NHL lockout.
"Thank you @dcoulier for taking me to my first hockey game. Thank you Lori for being my wing woman and thank you @bobsaget for watching out for me like a dad," Candace wrote on Instagram in honor of her 25th wedding anniversary, tagging her Full House costars in a pic from that momentous night.
Saget commented on the post, "When Val gave you his sweaty jersey after the game I knew it was a done deal. Love you. And Val!!!"
In fact, Val asked Candace out to lunch for the very next day.
"I was a big part of his introduction to America, or North America, I should say," she recalled with a smile on The Open Door Sisterhood podcast in 2020, noting that her husband had only been in Canada for about two years when they first met, and he and his brother, NHL star Pavel Bure, "learned English by watching Full House." They went on their date and "the rest is history," she said. "It's been a wild ride."