| Sep 21, 1986 Sun | Preseason | St. Louis | Detroit | Add Fight |
| Sep 22, 1986 Mon | Preseason | Minnesota | Detroit | Add Fight |
| Sep 26, 1986 Fri | Preseason | Chicago | Detroit | Add Fight |
| Sep 27, 1986 Sat | Preseason | Detroit | Toronto | Chiasson-Salming |
| Sep 28, 1986 Sun | Preseason | Toronto | Detroit | McGill-Young (6) Kotsopoulos-Young (4) Allison-Sharples (4) Jackson-Murphy Courtnall-Murphy Daoust-Chiasson (Rough) Thomas-Higgins |
| Sep 30, 1986 Tue | Preseason | Edmonton | Detroit | (Cheap) Beukeboom-Young Beukeboom-Young |
| Oct 3, 1986 Fri | Preseason | Detroit | New Jersey | Add Fight |
| Oct 5, 1986 Sun | Preseason | Detroit | Chicago | Scrum Ladouceur-Manson (2) (Rough) Burr-Olczyk |
| Oct 9, 1986 Thu | | Detroit | Quebec | (Hit) Kocur-Ashton |
| Oct 11, 1986 Sat | | Chicago | Detroit | (Cheap) unknown-Kocur Nylund-Kocur (2.7) Fraser-Probert (5) |
| Oct 15, 1986 Wed | | Los Angeles | Detroit | Add Fight |
| Oct 17, 1986 Fri | | Detroit | Edmonton | Add Fight |
| Oct 18, 1986 Sat | | Detroit | Calgary | McRae-Otto |
| Oct 22, 1986 Wed | | Montreal | Detroit | Corson-Kocur (2.4) Nilan-McRae (7.4) |
| Oct 24, 1986 Fri | | St. Louis | Detroit | Lemieux-Kocur (3) Paslawski-McRae (5) |
| Oct 25, 1986 Sat | | Detroit | St. Louis | Oates-Bourgeois |
| Oct 29, 1986 Wed | | Chicago | Detroit | (Rough) Secord-McRae |
| Oct 30, 1986 Thu | | Detroit | Minnesota | Probert-Plett (1) McRae-Rouse Snepsts-Broten |
| Nov 1, 1986 Sat | | Detroit | Toronto | Gallant-Daoust Gallant-Fergus |
| Nov 5, 1986 Wed | | NY Rangers | Detroit | Scrum at 54:54 |
| Nov 8, 1986 Sat | | Detroit | NY Islanders | (Rough) Ladouceur-Curran |
| Nov 9, 1986 Sun | | Pittsburgh | Detroit | Injury Scrum at 15:35 Frawley-McRae (5) (Rough) Hannan-Norwood Ruskowski-Gallant (3) |
| Nov 12, 1986 Wed | | Detroit | New Jersey | Kocur-Anderson (4) Norwood-Bridgman (5) |
| Nov 13, 1986 Thu | | Detroit | Philadelphia | (Cheap) unknown-Marsh |
| Nov 15, 1986 Sat | | Detroit | Toronto | Gallant-Smith (2.5) Ladouceur-Clark (2) Seiling-Thomas (Rough) Snepsts-Clark (Rough) McRae-McGill Kocur-Gill (1) Burr-Smith (2) (Rough) Snepsts-Thomas Kocur-Johnson (5.4) Norwood-Clark (3) McRae-Smith (7.3) Higgins-Smith (4) (Cheap) Snepsts-Thomas (4) Norwood-Clark (5) Gallant-McGill (5) Scrum at 59:00 |
| Nov 19, 1986 Wed | | New Jersey | Detroit | Daneyko-Kocur Adams-Chiasson |
| Nov 21, 1986 Fri | | Washington | Detroit | Hatcher-Kocur (3.4) (Rough) Gartner-Chiasson Stevens-Probert (7.3) |
| Nov 22, 1986 Sat | | Detroit | Montreal | (Cheap) unknown-Momesso |
| Nov 26, 1986 Wed | | Toronto | Detroit | Injury (Rough) Gill-Seiling Smith-Snepsts (Rough) Allison-Burr Leeman-Chiasson Allison-Ladouceur McGill-Probert (7.3) (Rough) James-Snepsts Smith-McRae (5.5) |
| Nov 28, 1986 Fri | | St. Louis | Detroit | Scrum at 55:59 |
| Nov 29, 1986 Sat | | Detroit | St. Louis | Add Fight |
| Dec 2, 1986 Tue | | Detroit | Los Angeles | Add Fight |
| Dec 5, 1986 Fri | | Montreal | Detroit | Corson-Kocur |
| Dec 6, 1986 Sat | | Detroit | Hartford | (Rough) Probert-Murzyn Norwood-MacDermid (Cheap) unknown-MacDermid |
| Dec 9, 1986 Tue | | Buffalo | Detroit | (Rough) Tucker-Seiling |
| Dec 11, 1986 Thu | | Minnesota | Detroit | (Cheap) Plett-Burr (4) (Cheap) unknown-Probert (Rough) Bjugstad-Gallant Rouse-McRae (5) Scrum at 50:01 |
| Dec 16, 1986 Tue | | Detroit | Calgary | (Rough) Norwood-Hunter Kocur-Baxter (5.5) (Cheap) Hanlon-Tonelli (3) (Rough) Probert-Hunter |
| Dec 17, 1986 Wed | | Detroit | Vancouver | Ladouceur-Sutter Kocur-Petit (6.6) |
| Dec 20, 1986 Sat | | Hartford | Detroit | Add Fight |
| Dec 21, 1986 Sun | | Detroit | Chicago | Scrum at 4:43 McRae-Fraser (4.7) Kocur-Manson (2.7) Gallant-Murray Gallant-Fraser (3.5) |
| Dec 23, 1986 Tue | | Chicago | Detroit | (Cheap) Presley-Higgins Scrum at 9:01 (8) Fraser-Kocur (4.8) |
| Dec 26, 1986 Fri | | Toronto | Detroit | Clark-Veitch Johnson-Kocur (2) Smith-Snepsts |
| Dec 27, 1986 Sat | | Detroit | Toronto | McRae-Kotsopoulos Probert-Clark (7.8) Kocur-Jackson (6.8) Ladouceur-Leeman (3) Snepsts-Maguire (7) Higgins-Thomas (5) (Rough) Burr-Leeman Probert-Maguire (3.6) |
| Dec 31, 1986 Wed | | Calgary | Detroit | (Rough) Sheehy-Kocur Suter-Gallant Hunter-Probert (5.5) (Rough) Sheehy-Gallant Scrum at 50:57 |
| Jan 2, 1987 Fri | | Minnesota | Detroit | Add Fight |
| Jan 3, 1987 Sat | | Detroit | Minnesota | Add Fight |
| Jan 6, 1987 Tue | | Toronto | Detroit | McGill-McRae (3.5) |
| Jan 8, 1987 Thu | | Detroit | Boston | Scrum at 5:30 McRae-Byers (6.3) Gallant-Neely (2) |
| Jan 10, 1987 Sat | | Winnipeg | Detroit | Rooney-Kocur |
| Jan 11, 1987 Sun | | Detroit | Chicago | Norwood-Presley (Rough) Gallant-Murray (2) Higgins-Presley Gallant-Brown Brawl at 59:25 (8) Probert-Nylund (8.7) Norwood-Olczyk (5.5) (Rough) McRae-Secord (1) |
| Jan 13, 1987 Tue | | Edmonton | Detroit | (Rough) Beukeboom-Klima McClelland-Kocur (5.3) Beukeboom-Norwood |
| Jan 15, 1987 Thu | | Toronto | Detroit | Maguire-Probert (9.8) Clark-McRae Jackson-Gallant (4) |
| Jan 17, 1987 Sat | | Quebec | Detroit | Zemlak-Probert (Rough) Price-Kocur |
| Jan 18, 1987 Sun | | Detroit | Pittsburgh | Add Fight |
| Jan 21, 1987 Wed | | NY Islanders | Detroit | Curran-Kocur (6.4) (Cheap) unknown-Higgins |
| Jan 23, 1987 Fri | | St. Louis | Detroit | Add Fight |
| Jan 24, 1987 Sat | | Detroit | St. Louis | (Rough) Snepsts-Ewen (2) Probert-Ewen (8.5) Gallant-Ramage Kocur-Hunter (1) Halward-Cavallini Probert-Ewen (7.6) Kocur-Cavallini (2) (Cheap) Laforest-unknown (Rough) Barr-Evans Gallant-Benning (4) Barr-Evans |
| Jan 28, 1987 Wed | | Washington | Detroit | Adams-Kocur (5) Barrett-Gallant (4.5) |
| Jan 31, 1987 Sat | | Detroit | Toronto | Add Fight |
| Feb 1, 1987 Sun | | Detroit | Buffalo | Yzerman-Smith (3) |
| Feb 4, 1987 Wed | | Detroit | Chicago | (Rough) Chiasson-Manson |
| Feb 6, 1987 Fri | | Minnesota | Detroit | DePalma-Zombo |
| Feb 7, 1987 Sat | | Detroit | Minnesota | (Cheap) Snepsts-Brooke |
| Feb 14, 1987 Sat | | New Jersey | Detroit | Add Fight |
| Feb 17, 1987 Tue | | Detroit | NY Rangers | Kocur-DeBlois (3.5) |
| Feb 18, 1987 Wed | | Winnipeg | Detroit | (Rough) Nill-Gallant McBain-Chiasson (6) |
| Feb 20, 1987 Fri | | Quebec | Detroit | (Rough) Gillis-Seiling Donnelly-Gallant Hunter-Burr Scrum at 26:51 |
| Feb 22, 1987 Sun | | Detroit | Chicago | 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 26, 1987 Thu | | Vancouver | Detroit | Cochrane-Kocur Scrum at 55:34 |
| Feb 28, 1987 Sat | | NY Rangers | Detroit | (Cheap) Vanbiesbrouck-unknown Carkner-Kocur (4.8) |
| Mar 2, 1987 Mon | | Detroit | Boston | Kocur-Pedersen (3.3) (Rough) Gallant-Boutilier Norwood-Byers (6.7) |
| Mar 3, 1987 Tue | | Detroit | Hartford | Barr-Evason (2) |
| Mar 5, 1987 Thu | | Minnesota | Detroit | (Rough) Acton-Norwood DePalma-Barr Brawl at 26:38 Plett-Probert (6) Musil-Barr Rouse-Kocur (4) |
| Mar 7, 1987 Sat | | Detroit | St. Louis | (Rough) Chiasson-Hunter Probert-Ewen (7.2) Zombo-Evans Zombo-Hunter (Rough) Kocur-Ramage (3) (Rough) Norwood-Hunter (3) |
| Mar 10, 1987 Tue | | Detroit | Vancouver | (Rough) Seiling-Bruce (4) Kocur-Cochrane (7) Brawl at 59:55 Bridgman-Butcher (4) Probert-Petit (8.8) Gallant-Lowry |
| Mar 11, 1987 Wed | | Detroit | Edmonton | Add Fight |
| Mar 14, 1987 Sat | | Detroit | Minnesota | Mini-Brawl at 4:06 |
| Mar 15, 1987 Sun | | Detroit | Winnipeg | Delorme-McBain (6) |
| Mar 17, 1987 Tue | | Boston | Detroit | (Hit) Milbury-Higgins (1) Crowder-Bridgman (5) |
| Mar 19, 1987 Thu | | NY Islanders | Detroit | Flatley-Burr Curran-Probert (7.3) (Cheap) unknown-Norwood |
| Mar 21, 1987 Sat | | Chicago | Detroit | (Rough) Nylund-Kocur Fraser-Kocur |
| Mar 22, 1987 Sun | | Detroit | Buffalo | (Cheap) unknown-Gillies O'Connell-Korn (Rough) Higgins-Korn |
| Mar 25, 1987 Wed | | Los Angeles | Detroit | Paterson-Bridgman (3) Brawl at 46:03 Ledyard-Gallant Williams-Norwood |
| Mar 28, 1987 Sat | | Detroit | Philadelphia | Probert-Berube (7.7) (Rough) Probert-Berube (3) Kocur-Berube (4.4) |
| Apr 1, 1987 Wed | | Philadelphia | Detroit | (Hit) Carson-Norwood Scrum at 5:03 (4) Propp-Gallant Berube-Probert (3.3) Brawl at 10:04 Stanley-Gallant (3) Tocchet-Zombo (6) Dobbin-Kocur (2.5) Carson-Kocur (2.5) Berube-Probert (6.3) (Rough) Mellanby-Ashton Dobbin-Barr |
| Apr 4, 1987 Sat | | Detroit | Pittsburgh | (Rough) Kocur-Schofield |
| Apr 5, 1987 Sun | | St. Louis | Detroit | Add Fight |
| Apr 8, 1987 Wed | Round 1 | Game 1 | Chicago | Detroit | Brown-Snepsts Nylund-Kocur (6.8) Secord-Gallant |
| Apr 9, 1987 Thu | Round 1 | Game 2 | Chicago | Detroit | Presley-Barr (7) |
| Apr 11, 1987 Sat | Round 1 | Game 3 | Detroit | Chicago | Scrum at 28:29 Kocur-Secord (2.3) (Rough) Snepsts-Fraser |
| Apr 12, 1987 Sun | Round 1 | Game 4 | Detroit | Chicago | Gallant-Murray (6) Zombo-Secord Probert-Fraser (3.5) (Rough) Kumpel-Manson |
| Apr 21, 1987 Tue | QF | Game 1 | Toronto | Detroit | Add Fight |
| Apr 23, 1987 Thu | QF | Game 2 | Toronto | Detroit | (Hit) Salming-Ashton Gill-Kocur (6) Iafrate-Probert (4.2) (Cheap) unknown-Probert |
| Apr 25, 1987 Sat | QF | Game 3 | Detroit | Toronto | Gallant-Vaive Barr-Gill Brawl at 32:46 Norwood-Clark (7) (Rough) Kocur-Gill (Rough) Norwood-Clark |
| Apr 27, 1987 Mon | QF | Game 4 | Detroit | Toronto | Add Fight |
| Apr 29, 1987 Wed | QF | Game 5 | Toronto | Detroit | Brawl at 37:58 Thomas-Seiling (2) |
| May 1, 1987 Fri | QF | Game 6 | Detroit | Toronto | Probert-Kotsopoulos (4.5) (Rough) Burr-Daoust |
| May 3, 1987 Sun | QF | Game 7 | Toronto | Detroit | Add Fight |
| May 5, 1987 Tue | SF | Game 1 | Detroit | Edmonton | (Rough) Bridgman-MacTavish (Cheap) Burr-Gretzky Scrum at 19:47 Probert-McClelland (5.8) Kocur-McSorley (5) |
| May 7, 1987 Thu | SF | Game 2 | Detroit | Edmonton | (Hit) Probert-Coffey (Hit) Delorme-Tikkanen Lamb-Gregg (5) Kocur-McClelland (4.7) Chiasson-Smith (6) Kocur-McSorley (5.3) |
| May 9, 1987 Sat | SF | Game 3 | Edmonton | Detroit | (Cheap) Lowe-Oates (Rough) Coffey-Klima (Rough) Anderson-Bridgman |
| May 11, 1987 Mon | SF | Game 4 | Edmonton | Detroit | Scrum at 34:03 Line Brawl at 49:25 McClelland-Kocur (3.5) MacTavish-Bridgman (Rough) McSorley-Probert |
| May 13, 1987 Wed | SF | Game 5 | Detroit | Edmonton | Add Fight |