| Sep 18, 1986 Thu | Preseason | Washington | Philadelphia | Muzio-Bar Babcock-Williams Babcock-Stevens Vukota-Berube Babcock-Horacek |
| Sep 20, 1986 Sat | Preseason | Washington | Boston | Add Fight |
| Sep 21, 1986 Sun | Preseason | Washington | Buffalo | Franceschetti-unknown Adams-Halkidis |
| Sep 24, 1986 Wed | Preseason | Washington | New Jersey | Add Fight |
| Sep 24, 1986 Wed | Preseason | Washington | New Jersey | Vukota-Anderson Thomson-Buwalda Hollett-Brady King-Huscroft (Refused) Eakins-Evtushevski (Refused) Thomson-Brady |
| Sep 26, 1986 Fri | Preseason | Washington | Hartford | Hatcher-Gavin Stevens-Robertson Hatcher-Samuelsson Adams-Robertson |
| Sep 27, 1986 Sat | Preseason | Washington | Boston | Add Fight |
| Sep 28, 1986 Sun | Preseason | Hartford | Washington | Add Fight |
| Sep 30, 1986 Tue | Preseason | Toronto | Washington | Iafrate-Duchesne |
| Oct 1, 1986 Wed | Preseason | Washington | Toronto | Add Fight |
| Oct 3, 1986 Fri | Preseason | Philadelphia | Washington | Martinson-Greenlaw Nachbaur-Leach (6.5) Nachbaur-Stevens (5.5) Stanley-Greenlaw (6.5) Mellanby-Hatcher Zezel-Carpenter |
| Oct 4, 1986 Sat | Preseason | Philadelphia | Washington | (Cheap) Tocchet-Barrett Hextall-Kastelic Stothers-unknown Berube-Hatcher Berube-Adams |
| Oct 9, 1986 Thu | | Washington | Pittsburgh | (Cheap) unknown-Bullard (Rough) Duchesne-Buskas (Rough) Pivonka-Ruskowski |
| Oct 11, 1986 Sat | | Philadelphia | Washington | (Cheap) Craven-unknown Scrum at 52:45 |
| Oct 13, 1986 Mon | | Washington | NY Rangers | (Cheap) Greenlaw-unknown Stevens-Jackson (7.5) |
| Oct 16, 1986 Thu | | Washington | NY Islanders | Greenlaw-Kerr |
| Oct 18, 1986 Sat | | Buffalo | Washington | (Rough) Korn-Gould Hartman-Stevens (4) Cyr-Hatcher (3) |
| Oct 20, 1986 Mon | | Washington | Montreal | (Cheap) Carpenter-unknown |
| Oct 21, 1986 Tue | | Washington | Quebec | Add Fight |
| Oct 24, 1986 Fri | | Minnesota | Washington | Add Fight |
| Oct 25, 1986 Sat | | New Jersey | Washington | Daneyko-Corriveau (6) |
| Oct 28, 1986 Tue | | Washington | Vancouver | (Rough) Duchesne-Lowry Haworth-Petit (Cheap) unknown-Maxwell |
| Oct 29, 1986 Wed | | Washington | Edmonton | Blum-Smith |
| Nov 1, 1986 Sat | | Washington | Calgary | (Rough) Stevens-McDonald Stevens-Otto (5.5) |
| Nov 4, 1986 Tue | | Washington | NY Islanders | Adams-Dineen (4) Franceschetti-Bassen (4) Greenlaw-Kerr (4) Hatcher-Sutter (3) Adams-Dineen |
| Nov 5, 1986 Wed | | Vancouver | Washington | Scrum at 44:45 Richter-Greenlaw (5.5) |
| Nov 8, 1986 Sat | | Chicago | Washington | (Rough) Secord-Gartner Bergevin-Hatcher (5) |
| Nov 11, 1986 Tue | | Washington | Minnesota | Add Fight |
| Nov 12, 1986 Wed | | Washington | Chicago | Scrum at 16:35 Hatcher-Bergevin (3) Greenlaw-Bergevin |
| Nov 14, 1986 Fri | | Quebec | Washington | Add Fight |
| Nov 16, 1986 Sun | | Washington | Philadelphia | Franceschetti-Tocchet (3) (Rough) Gartner-Carson Stevens-Stanley (3.7) (Rough) Blum-Hospodar Blum-Tocchet (6) |
| Nov 18, 1986 Tue | | Los Angeles | Washington | Add Fight |
| Nov 21, 1986 Fri | | Washington | Detroit | Hatcher-Kocur (3.4) (Rough) Gartner-Chiasson Stevens-Probert (7.3) |
| Nov 22, 1986 Sat | | Pittsburgh | Washington | Frawley-Corriveau (2) |
| Nov 26, 1986 Wed | | Boston | Washington | Add Fight |
| Nov 28, 1986 Fri | | Philadelphia | Washington | (Rough) Hospodar-Adams |
| Nov 29, 1986 Sat | | Washington | Quebec | Scrum at 16:54 Scrum at 18:05 Thomson-Price Barrett-Kumpel |
| Dec 1, 1986 Mon | | Washington | Montreal | Barrett-Corson (2) |
| Dec 3, 1986 Wed | | Washington | Winnipeg | Add Fight |
| Dec 6, 1986 Sat | | Montreal | Washington | (Hit) Chelios-Adams Lalor-Thomson (4) Nilan-Adams (6.8) (Cheap) unknown-Pivonka |
| Dec 9, 1986 Tue | | New Jersey | Washington | Cirella-Greenlaw MacLean-Beaudoin |
| Dec 10, 1986 Wed | | Washington | Toronto | Add Fight |
| Dec 14, 1986 Sun | | NY Rangers | Washington | Add Fight |
| Dec 17, 1986 Wed | | Washington | NY Rangers | Scrum at 7:19 Gould-Patrick (3) Franceschetti-Osborne (3) |
| Dec 19, 1986 Fri | | Washington | New Jersey | Add Fight |
| Dec 20, 1986 Sat | | St. Louis | Washington | (Rough) Flockhart-Cavallini Hunter-Langway |
| Dec 26, 1986 Fri | | NY Islanders | Washington | (Rough) Sutter-Adams |
| Dec 28, 1986 Sun | | Washington | Chicago | Corriveau-Fraser (Cheap) unknown-Fraser Mini-Brawl at 23:49 Adams-Olczyk |
| Dec 30, 1986 Tue | | Hartford | Washington | Barr-Blum |
| Jan 1, 1987 Thu | | Pittsburgh | Washington | (Hit) Errey-Stevens (4) Hannan-Adams Ruskowski-Gould |
| Jan 3, 1987 Sat | | Philadelphia | Washington | (Rough) Sutter-Blum Scrum at 17:19 Line Brawl at 31:03 (3) Brown-Stevens (6) Tocchet-Hatcher (3) Poulin-Franceschetti (1) |
| Jan 5, 1987 Mon | | Washington | St. Louis | Scrum at 19:35 |
| Jan 7, 1987 Wed | | Washington | Pittsburgh | (Rough) Duchesne-Cunneyworth (Cheap) unknown-Buskas |
| Jan 9, 1987 Fri | | Pittsburgh | Washington | (Hit) Cunneyworth-Gould (4) Hannan-Laughlin (3) (Rough) Hillier-Franceschetti |
| Jan 11, 1987 Sun | | Washington | Philadelphia | (Rough) Blum-Kerr Stevens-Mellanby (4.8) Adams-Hospodar (5) Stevens-Marsh (5) |
| Jan 13, 1987 Tue | | Winnipeg | Washington | (Rough) Marois-Ridley |
| Jan 15, 1987 Thu | | Washington | NY Islanders | Add Fight |
| Jan 17, 1987 Sat | | Washington | Hartford | Hatcher-Semenko (6.5) |
| Jan 18, 1987 Sun | | Washington | New Jersey | Adams-Daneyko |
| Jan 20, 1987 Tue | | New Jersey | Washington | Daneyko-Adams Ludvig-Franceschetti |
| Jan 23, 1987 Fri | | Washington | Buffalo | Add Fight |
| Jan 24, 1987 Sat | | Buffalo | Washington | (Rough) Dykstra-Barrett (1) |
| Jan 27, 1987 Tue | | Washington | Pittsburgh | (Rough) Stevens-Bodger Blum-Simpson Laughlin-Ruskowski |
| Jan 28, 1987 Wed | | Washington | Detroit | Adams-Kocur (5) Barrett-Gallant (4.5) |
| Jan 30, 1987 Fri | | NY Islanders | Washington | Lauer-Hatcher (1) Kerr-Hatcher (5) Scrum at 55:57 |
| Feb 1, 1987 Sun | | Winnipeg | Washington | Nill-Stevens (5.8) Marois-Franceschetti (4.5) Line Brawl at 55:09 Turnbull-Adams Carlyle-Hatcher (3) |
| Feb 4, 1987 Wed | | Washington | NY Rangers | Add Fight |
| Feb 6, 1987 Fri | | Hartford | Washington | (Hit) MacDermid-Blum MacDermid-Blum (3.7) |
| Feb 7, 1987 Sat | | NY Rangers | Washington | (Hit) Sandstrom-Blum |
| Feb 15, 1987 Sun | | Washington | Edmonton | Add Fight |
| Feb 18, 1987 Wed | | Washington | Los Angeles | Add Fight |
| Feb 20, 1987 Fri | | Washington | Vancouver | Haworth-Peterson (3) (Cheap) Stevens-unknown Stevens-Richter |
| Feb 22, 1987 Sun | | Washington | Calgary | Add Fight |
| Feb 24, 1987 Tue | | Detroit | Washington | (Rough) Zombo-Stevens (2) Brawl at 42:40 Seiling-Kastelic (2.5) Brawl at 51:27 |
| Feb 27, 1987 Fri | | Edmonton | Washington | (Rough) Hunter-Pivonka Krushelnyski-Hatcher (4) (Rough) Tikkanen-Stevens McSorley-Franceschetti (4) |
| Mar 1, 1987 Sun | | NY Rangers | Washington | Carkner-Kastelic (3) (Almost) Talakoski-Smith Brawl at 7:09 Brawl at 8:03 Greschner-Miller (3) Talakoski-Langway Maloney-Blum |
| Mar 3, 1987 Tue | | New Jersey | Washington | Add Fight |
| Mar 5, 1987 Thu | | Washington | Philadelphia | (Rough) Franceschetti-Brown Kastelic-Brown (Rough) Franceschetti-Samuelsson |
| Mar 7, 1987 Sat | | Washington | Boston | (Rough) Murphy-Markwart Murphy-Markwart (3) |
| Mar 10, 1987 Tue | | Calgary | Washington | Add Fight |
| Mar 13, 1987 Fri | | Toronto | Washington | Clark-Franceschetti (5) McGill-Adams (2) |
| Mar 14, 1987 Sat | | Washington | St. Louis | Thomson-Raglan Brawl at 54:23 Hatcher-Federko Miller-Lemieux |
| Mar 17, 1987 Tue | | Los Angeles | Washington | (Hit) Nicholls-Hatcher (4) Nicholls-Smith |
| Mar 20, 1987 Fri | | Pittsburgh | Washington | Scrum (Rough) Cunneyworth-Ridley (Rough) Frawley-Duchesne Lemieux-Gould (7.1) Brawl at 21:17 (Rough) Hannan-Stevens Scrum at 27:10 Young-Langway (4) (Cheap) Young-Langway |
| Mar 22, 1987 Sun | | Boston | Washington | Collision |
| Mar 24, 1987 Tue | | Washington | NY Islanders | Laughlin-Sutter |
| Mar 27, 1987 Fri | | NY Islanders | Washington | Add Fight |
| Mar 29, 1987 Sun | | Minnesota | Washington | Scrum at 19:39 (Cheap) Lawton-unknown (Cheap) Ciccarelli-unknown |
| Mar 31, 1987 Tue | | Toronto | Washington | Gill-Kastelic (4) |
| Apr 1, 1987 Wed | | Washington | NY Rangers | (Rough) Franceschetti-Sandstrom (3) Kastelic-Price (3) |
| Apr 4, 1987 Sat | | Philadelphia | Washington | Stanley-Stevens (7.3) Scrum at 29:51 |
| Apr 5, 1987 Sun | | Washington | New Jersey | Franceschetti-Cirella (2.5) Kastelic-Mark (7) Stevens-Stewart (5.7) |
| Apr 8, 1987 Wed | Round 1 | Game 1 | NY Islanders | Washington | Diduck-Smith |
| Apr 9, 1987 Thu | Round 1 | Game 2 | NY Islanders | Washington | Wood-Haworth |
| Apr 11, 1987 Sat | Round 1 | Game 3 | Washington | NY Islanders | Add Fight |
| Apr 12, 1987 Sun | Round 1 | Game 4 | Washington | NY Islanders | (Rough) Hatcher-Gilbert (Rough) Kastelic-Curran (Cheap) Adams-Sutter Adams-Curran Kastelic-Diduck |
| Apr 14, 1987 Tue | Round 1 | Game 5 | NY Islanders | Washington | (Cheap) Bassen-unknown |
| Apr 16, 1987 Thu | Round 1 | Game 6 | Washington | NY Islanders | (Rough) Gould-LaFontaine Scrum at 32:32 (Rough) Duchesne-Trottier (Rough) Duchesne-Leiter Stevens-Diduck (6) Franceschetti-Wood (Rough) Duchesne-Sutter |
| Apr 18, 1987 Sat | Round 1 | Game 7 | NY Islanders | Washington | (Cheap) Morrow-Pivonka (4) (Hit) Flatley-Stevens (8) (Cheap) Hrudey-Franceschetti (4.3) |