| Sep 21, 1986 Sun | Preseason | Washington | Buffalo | Franceschetti-unknown Adams-Halkidis |
| Sep 22, 1986 Mon | Preseason | Philadelphia | Buffalo | Unknown-Reekie Nachbaur-Creighton Kypreos-Ristau (7) (Rough) Fitzpatrick-Hartman Stevens-Ristau Martinson-Lever Stevens-Ristau Nachbaur-Hofford Kypreos-Hartman Martinson-Reekie Tocchet-Fraser (6) |
| Sep 26, 1986 Fri | Preseason | NY Islanders | Buffalo | Bassen-Ruff Gilbert-Ruff Lacey-Hartman Kerr-Cyr |
| Sep 27, 1986 Sat | Preseason | Buffalo | NY Islanders | Halkidis-Sutter Smith-Neill |
| Sep 28, 1986 Sun | Preseason | New Jersey | Buffalo | Add Fight |
| Sep 30, 1986 Tue | Preseason | Buffalo | New Jersey | Add Fight |
| Oct 1, 1986 Wed | Preseason | Buffalo | Philadelphia | Fraser-Armstrong Foligno-Tocchet Hartman-Hill Gasseau-Carson |
| Oct 3, 1986 Fri | Preseason | Toronto | Buffalo | (Rough) unknown-Ristau |
| Oct 4, 1986 Sat | Preseason | Buffalo | Toronto | Korn-McGill (6) |
| Oct 9, 1986 Thu | | Buffalo | Winnipeg | Add Fight |
| Oct 11, 1986 Sat | | Buffalo | Toronto | Add Fight |
| Oct 12, 1986 Sun | | Calgary | Buffalo | Fotiu-Paiement |
| Oct 15, 1986 Wed | | Montreal | Buffalo | (Hit) Smith-Hofford |
| Oct 17, 1986 Fri | | Pittsburgh | Buffalo | Ruskowski-Foligno (3) Duguay-Hofford Hannan-Hartman |
| Oct 18, 1986 Sat | | Buffalo | Washington | (Rough) Korn-Gould Hartman-Stevens (4) Cyr-Hatcher (3) |
| Oct 22, 1986 Wed | | Buffalo | Pittsburgh | Scrum at 52:34 (Cheap) Hofford-unknown |
| Oct 24, 1986 Fri | | Hartford | Buffalo | MacDermid-Foligno |
| Oct 25, 1986 Sat | | Buffalo | Hartford | Hartman-MacDermid Hofford-Robertson Russell-unknown Orlando-Dineen Ramsey-MacDermid |
| Oct 29, 1986 Wed | | Buffalo | Montreal | (Rough) Hartman-Ludwig Hofford-Corson (5) Halkidis-McPhee (3) |
| Nov 1, 1986 Sat | | Buffalo | New Jersey | Hartman-Anderson Anderson-Ludvig Ramsey-MacLean |
| Nov 2, 1986 Sun | | Buffalo | Boston | Hartman-Courtnall Krupp-Miller (4) Arniel-Courtnall |
| Nov 5, 1986 Wed | | Boston | Buffalo | Add Fight |
| Nov 7, 1986 Fri | | Vancouver | Buffalo | Add Fight |
| Nov 9, 1986 Sun | | NY Islanders | Buffalo | Sutter-Arniel |
| Nov 12, 1986 Wed | | Buffalo | NY Rangers | Foligno-Patrick (2) Event at 17:49 Hartman-Maloney (3) Gillies-Carkner (5.8) |
| Nov 15, 1986 Sat | | Buffalo | Montreal | (Cheap) Korn-unknown |
| Nov 19, 1986 Wed | | Boston | Buffalo | (Cheap) Boutilier-unknown Pedersen-Ruff Courtnall-Ramsey Mini-Brawl at 48:10 |
| Nov 21, 1986 Fri | | Quebec | Buffalo | Eagles-Korn Cote-Korn |
| Nov 22, 1986 Sat | | Buffalo | Quebec | (Cheap) Ruuttu-unknown |
| Nov 26, 1986 Wed | | Buffalo | Hartford | Ruff-MacDermid Krupp-Robertson (4) |
| Nov 28, 1986 Fri | | Boston | Buffalo | (Rough) Larson-Cyr Crowder-Cyr (6.5) Kasper-Tucker (3) Johnston-Cyr |
| Nov 29, 1986 Sat | | Buffalo | Boston | Foligno-Miller (3.8) Arniel-Courtnall (7) Ruff-Neely (5) Foligno-Pedersen (3) Arniel-Crowder (3) Smith-Crowder |
| Dec 2, 1986 Tue | | Minnesota | Buffalo | Add Fight |
| Dec 5, 1986 Fri | | St. Louis | Buffalo | Add Fight |
| Dec 6, 1986 Sat | | Buffalo | New Jersey | Gillies-Wolanin |
| Dec 9, 1986 Tue | | Buffalo | Detroit | (Rough) Tucker-Seiling |
| Dec 10, 1986 Wed | | Buffalo | Chicago | Parker-Nylund (4) |
| Dec 13, 1986 Sat | | Buffalo | Quebec | (Cheap) unknown-Moller Ruff-Kumpel |
| Dec 14, 1986 Sun | | Hartford | Buffalo | (Hit) MacDermid-Krupp |
| Dec 17, 1986 Wed | | Buffalo | Hartford | Ruuttu-Kleinendorst Ramsey-MacDermid |
| Dec 19, 1986 Fri | | Montreal | Buffalo | Kordic-Dykstra |
| Dec 20, 1986 Sat | | Buffalo | Toronto | Foligno-Thomas Ruff-McGill (6) (Rough) Paiement-Kotsopoulos Paiement-Clark (2) Dykstra-Clark (3) Smith-McGill (6) (Rough) Foligno-Kotsopoulos |
| Dec 23, 1986 Tue | | Philadelphia | Buffalo | Add Fight |
| Dec 26, 1986 Fri | | Pittsburgh | Buffalo | (Rough) Buskas-Cyr Young-Dykstra (4.5) Frawley-Ramsey (5) |
| Dec 28, 1986 Sun | | Calgary | Buffalo | Hunter-Dykstra (2) Hunter-Korn (2) Bradley-Smith |
| Dec 31, 1986 Wed | | Chicago | Buffalo | Donnelly-Ramsey (Rough) Nylund-Paiement |
| Jan 2, 1987 Fri | | Winnipeg | Buffalo | Add Fight |
| Jan 4, 1987 Sun | | Quebec | Buffalo | Hough-Dykstra (4) Scrum at 37:26 |
| Jan 7, 1987 Wed | | Buffalo | Winnipeg | Gillies-Berry (2) |
| Jan 8, 1987 Thu | | Buffalo | Minnesota | (Rough) Paiement-Musil |
| Jan 10, 1987 Sat | | Buffalo | Los Angeles | Add Fight |
| Jan 14, 1987 Wed | | Montreal | Buffalo | (Rough) Skrudland-Foligno |
| Jan 17, 1987 Sat | | Buffalo | Montreal | Add Fight |
| Jan 18, 1987 Sun | | Edmonton | Buffalo | Add Fight |
| Jan 20, 1987 Tue | | Buffalo | Minnesota | (Hit) Anderson-Rouse Foligno-Rouse Dykstra-MacLellan (4.7) |
| Jan 23, 1987 Fri | | Washington | Buffalo | Add Fight |
| Jan 24, 1987 Sat | | Buffalo | Washington | (Rough) Dykstra-Barrett (1) |
| Jan 26, 1987 Mon | | Buffalo | Boston | Reekie-Markwart (5) |
| Jan 28, 1987 Wed | | Philadelphia | Buffalo | Add Fight |
| Jan 30, 1987 Fri | | Quebec | Buffalo | McRae-Dykstra (4) (Cheap) Goulet-unknown Donnelly-Korn (6.6) Zemlak-Dykstra (5.8) |
| Feb 1, 1987 Sun | | Detroit | Buffalo | Yzerman-Smith (3) |
| Feb 4, 1987 Wed | | Buffalo | Hartford | Add Fight |
| Feb 7, 1987 Sat | | Buffalo | Quebec | Foligno-Gillis |
| Feb 8, 1987 Sun | | Chicago | Buffalo | Secord-Reekie (1) (Cheap) Murray-unknown Fraser-Reekie (6) Donnelly-Paiement (2) Manson-Smith |
| Feb 14, 1987 Sat | | Buffalo | NY Islanders | Add Fight |
| Feb 18, 1987 Wed | | Boston | Buffalo | (Rough) Neely-Reekie Markwart-Ramsey (5) (Rough) Milbury-Foligno |
| Feb 20, 1987 Fri | | Buffalo | NY Rangers | Add Fight |
| Feb 22, 1987 Sun | | Hartford | Buffalo | Add Fight |
| Feb 24, 1987 Tue | | NY Rangers | Buffalo | Jensen-Cyr (Rough) Jackson-Korn Kisio-Smith (7) |
| Feb 26, 1987 Thu | | St. Louis | Buffalo | Add Fight |
| Feb 28, 1987 Sat | | Buffalo | Boston | Dykstra-Markwart (3) Smith-Johnston (4) Foligno-Thelin (1) |
| Mar 1, 1987 Sun | | Vancouver | Buffalo | (Rough) Lowry-Hartman Sandlak-Hartman |
| Mar 3, 1987 Tue | | Buffalo | Philadelphia | Add Fight |
| Mar 5, 1987 Thu | | New Jersey | Buffalo | Add Fight |
| Mar 7, 1987 Sat | | Buffalo | Quebec | Scrum at 26:01 Foligno-Gillis |
| Mar 8, 1987 Sun | | Quebec | Buffalo | (Cheap) Gillis-unknown Mini-Brawl at 46:15 Scrum at 49:17 |
| Mar 11, 1987 Wed | | Buffalo | Los Angeles | Ferner-Paterson (6) unknown-Williams |
| Mar 13, 1987 Fri | | Buffalo | Vancouver | Add Fight |
| Mar 14, 1987 Sat | | Buffalo | Edmonton | Dykstra-McClelland (6) |
| Mar 17, 1987 Tue | | Buffalo | Calgary | Add Fight |
| Mar 20, 1987 Fri | | Montreal | Buffalo | Brawl at 25:46 Nilan-Dykstra Scrum at 27:27 (Rough) Robinson-Smith |
| Mar 22, 1987 Sun | | Detroit | Buffalo | (Cheap) unknown-Gillies O'Connell-Korn (Rough) Higgins-Korn |
| Mar 24, 1987 Tue | | Toronto | Buffalo | Daoust-Housley Laxdal-Gillies (Cheap) Osborne-unknown |
| Mar 26, 1987 Thu | | Los Angeles | Buffalo | Sykes-Reekie (3) (Rough) Sykes-Korn |
| Mar 28, 1987 Sat | | Buffalo | Montreal | Foligno-Chelios (1) Foligno-Nilan (3) |
| Mar 29, 1987 Sun | | Edmonton | Buffalo | (Rough) Lowe-Creighton |
| Apr 2, 1987 Thu | | Buffalo | St. Louis | (Almost) Ramsey-Ewen (2) Ruuttu-Meagher |
| Apr 4, 1987 Sat | | Buffalo | NY Islanders | Korn-Kerr (1) (Rough) Smith-Kromm Korn-Gilbert (6) Brawl at 49:15 |
| Apr 5, 1987 Sun | | Hartford | Buffalo | Churla-Gillies (2.5) Churla-Dykstra |