| Dec 1, 1981 Tue | | Edmonton | Montreal | Add Event |
| Dec 1, 1981 Tue | | Winnipeg | Philadelphia | Add Event |
| Dec 1, 1981 Tue | | Detroit | St. Louis | Add Event |
| Dec 2, 1981 Wed | | Edmonton | Quebec | Add Event |
| Dec 2, 1981 Wed | | Winnipeg | Pittsburgh | Trimper-Graham |
| Dec 2, 1981 Wed | | Calgary | Washington | Add Event |
| Dec 2, 1981 Wed | | NY Rangers | Los Angeles | Add Event |
| Dec 2, 1981 Wed | | Minnesota | Vancouver | Friest-McCarthy |
| Dec 2, 1981 Wed | | Chicago | Colorado | Add Event |
| Dec 2, 1981 Wed | | Hartford | Toronto | Howatt-Maloney |
| Dec 3, 1981 Thu | | Buffalo | Boston | Dunn-Crowder Scrum at 58:57 |
| Dec 3, 1981 Thu | | Calgary | Philadelphia | Plett-Marsh (Cheap) Peplinski-Cochrane Peplinski-Cochrane |
| Dec 3, 1981 Thu | | Montreal | Detroit | Add Event |
| Dec 4, 1981 Fri | | Buffalo | Hartford | Playfair-Kotsopoulos (3) |
| Dec 4, 1981 Fri | | Winnipeg | Washington | Hawerchuk-Gustafsson |
| Dec 4, 1981 Fri | | Vancouver | Edmonton | Rota-Fogolin Williams-Semenko |
| Dec 5, 1981 Sat | | Calgary | Montreal | Add Event |
| Dec 5, 1981 Sat | | Boston | Quebec | Kasper-Hunter  |
| Dec 5, 1981 Sat | | Chicago | Los Angeles | Higgins-Wells |
| Dec 5, 1981 Sat | | Edmonton | Vancouver | Hughes-Rota |
| Dec 5, 1981 Sat | | NY Rangers | Colorado | Add Event |
| Dec 5, 1981 Sat | | Pittsburgh | St. Louis | Mulvey-Patey (1) Price-Sutter (4) Scrum at 60:00 (2.5) |
| Dec 5, 1981 Sat | | NY Islanders | Minnesota | Add Event |
| Dec 5, 1981 Sat | | Washington | Toronto | Walter-Gibson Maruk-Martin (5) Robertson-McGill (1) Carpenter-McGill Valentine-Gibson (2) Robertson-Melrose |
| Dec 5, 1981 Sat | | Philadelphia | Detroit | Holmgren-Woods (3.3) Scrum at 37:35 Flockhart-Huber |
| Dec 6, 1981 Sun | | Pittsburgh | Buffalo | (Rough) Bullard-Dunn Line Brawl at 30:55  Price-Patrick (1) Baxter-Ruff (7.4)  Anderson-Playfair |
| Dec 6, 1981 Sun | | St. Louis | Philadelphia | (Cheap) Patey-Holmgren Brawl at 57:40 Patey-Linseman |
| Dec 6, 1981 Sun | | Hartford | NY Rangers | Kotsopoulos-Duguay Renaud-Silk Howatt-Hospodar (6.3)  |
| Dec 6, 1981 Sun | | NY Islanders | Winnipeg | Sutter-Legge Nystrom-MacLean |
| Dec 8, 1981 Tue | | Calgary | Quebec | Add Event |
| Dec 9, 1981 Wed | | Colorado | Buffalo | Add Event |
| Dec 9, 1981 Wed | | St. Louis | Hartford | Nill-Rowe |
| Dec 9, 1981 Wed | | Boston | NY Rangers | Baron-Fotiu |
| Dec 9, 1981 Wed | | Philadelphia | Pittsburgh | Adams-Price Holmgren-Baxter (6) Abuse at 7:57 |
| Dec 9, 1981 Wed | | Edmonton | Los Angeles | Berry-Johansen (Cheap) Lumley-unknown (Cheap) Messier-unknown Lumley-Hardy Coffey-Taylor |
| Dec 9, 1981 Wed | | NY Islanders | Vancouver | Add Event |
| Dec 9, 1981 Wed | | Montreal | Minnesota | Add Event |
| Dec 9, 1981 Wed | | Washington | Chicago | Blomqvist-Ruskowski |
| Dec 9, 1981 Wed | | Winnipeg | Toronto | Brawl at 58:31 Watters-Martin Wilson-Boschman Maxwell-Saganiuk Trimper-Melrose Mann-Gibson |
| Dec 10, 1981 Thu | | St. Louis | Boston | Nill-Jonathan (6)  Pavese-O'Reilly |
| Dec 10, 1981 Thu | | Minnesota | Detroit | Friest-Gare |
| Dec 11, 1981 Fri | | Toronto | Washington | (Rough) Melrose-Tookey |
| Dec 11, 1981 Fri | | Montreal | Winnipeg | Add Event |
| Dec 12, 1981 Sat | | St. Louis | Quebec | Pavese-McRae Sutter-Weir Nill-Marois Scrum at 21:44 Patey-Stastny Kea-Hunter |
| Dec 12, 1981 Sat | | Colorado | Hartford | Add Event |
| Dec 12, 1981 Sat | | NY Rangers | Philadelphia | Add Event |
| Dec 12, 1981 Sat | | Washington | Pittsburgh | Add Event |
| Dec 12, 1981 Sat | | Vancouver | Los Angeles | Campbell-Hopkins Delorme-Wells Rota-Murphy |
| Dec 12, 1981 Sat | | NY Islanders | Calgary | Add Event |
| Dec 12, 1981 Sat | | Chicago | Minnesota | Secord-Friest Marsh-Carlson |
| Dec 12, 1981 Sat | | Montreal | Toronto | (Rough) Sevigny-Boschman Lapointe-Vaive |
| Dec 12, 1981 Sat | | Buffalo | Detroit | Add Event |
| Dec 13, 1981 Sun | | Quebec | Buffalo | McRae-Foligno Weir-Patrick |
| Dec 13, 1981 Sun | | Colorado | Boston | Add Event |
| Dec 13, 1981 Sun | | NY Islanders | Edmonton | Add Event |
| Dec 13, 1981 Sun | | Calgary | Vancouver | (Rough) Plett-Smyl |
| Dec 13, 1981 Sun | | Hartford | Chicago | McIlhargey-Secord Rowe-Bulley |
| Dec 13, 1981 Sun | | Detroit | Winnipeg | Add Event |
| Dec 14, 1981 Mon | | Washington | Montreal | Add Event |
| Dec 14, 1981 Mon | | Pittsburgh | NY Rangers | Baxter-Beck (4.2)  |
| Dec 15, 1981 Tue | | Los Angeles | Buffalo | Add Event |
| Dec 15, 1981 Tue | | Quebec | NY Islanders | Rochefort-Sutter |
| Dec 15, 1981 Tue | | Minnesota | St. Louis | Add Event |
| Dec 16, 1981 Wed | | Montreal | Hartford | Add Event |
| Dec 16, 1981 Wed | | Philadelphia | NY Rangers | Brawl at 46:19 (3)  Adams-Laidlaw Barber-Hospodar (4)  |
| Dec 16, 1981 Wed | | Los Angeles | Pittsburgh | Hardy-Ferguson Taylor-Price |
| Dec 16, 1981 Wed | | Toronto | Vancouver | Maloney-Campbell |
| Dec 16, 1981 Wed | | Edmonton | Colorado | Add Event |
| Dec 16, 1981 Wed | | Winnipeg | Chicago | Add Event |
| Dec 17, 1981 Thu | | Montreal | Boston | Add Event |
| Dec 17, 1981 Thu | | Washington | NY Islanders | Add Event |
| Dec 17, 1981 Thu | | Buffalo | Philadelphia | Foligno-Cochrane (8)  |
| Dec 17, 1981 Thu | | Edmonton | Calgary | Add Event |
| Dec 17, 1981 Thu | | Winnipeg | Minnesota | Crowd Trouble at 3:03 Spring-Palmer |
| Dec 17, 1981 Thu | | Quebec | Detroit | (Cheap) Weir-Gare |
| Dec 18, 1981 Fri | | Vancouver | Colorado | Smyl-Wensink |
| Dec 19, 1981 Sat | | Boston | Montreal | Kasper-Hunter |
| Dec 19, 1981 Sat | | Buffalo | Quebec | Playfair-Weir |
| Dec 19, 1981 Sat | | Los Angeles | Hartford | Unknown-Kotsopoulos Wells-Lyle |
| Dec 19, 1981 Sat | | Detroit | NY Islanders | Woods-Sutter Gare-Nystrom Smith-Lane Gare-Bourne |
| Dec 19, 1981 Sat | | NY Rangers | Pittsburgh | Scrum at 32:14 (Cheap) Allison-Gardner |
| Dec 19, 1981 Sat | | Chicago | Washington | Brown-Robertson Brown-Robertson Hutchison-Tookey Secord-Gould Kerr-Walter Higgins-Robertson Secord-Blomqvist (1) Secord-Blomqvist (1) |
| Dec 19, 1981 Sat | | Colorado | Calgary | Add Event |
| Dec 19, 1981 Sat | | Minnesota | Edmonton | Add Event |
| Dec 19, 1981 Sat | | Vancouver | St. Louis | Lindgren-Sutter |
| Dec 19, 1981 Sat | | Toronto | Winnipeg | Melrose-MacLean Brawl at 53:46 Boschman-Watters (2) Paiement-Legge (6) Paiement-Legge (4) Boschman-Watters |
| Dec 20, 1981 Sun | | Hartford | Buffalo | Howatt-Foligno |
| Dec 20, 1981 Sun | | Los Angeles | Boston | Hopkins-Cashman |
| Dec 20, 1981 Sun | | Pittsburgh | Philadelphia | Anderson-Allison |
| Dec 20, 1981 Sun | | Washington | NY Rangers | Duchesne-Dore Scrum at 23:10 |
| Dec 20, 1981 Sun | | Calgary | Edmonton | Add Event |
| Dec 20, 1981 Sun | | Toronto | Chicago | McGill-Secord McGill-Secord |
| Dec 20, 1981 Sun | | St. Louis | Winnipeg | Add Event |
| Dec 20, 1981 Sun | | NY Islanders | Detroit | Gillies-Smith |
| Dec 22, 1981 Tue | | Montreal | Quebec | Laughlin-Hunter |
| Dec 22, 1981 Tue | | Winnipeg | NY Islanders | Babych-Marini (7) |
| Dec 22, 1981 Tue | | Minnesota | Vancouver | Add Event |
| Dec 22, 1981 Tue | | Los Angeles | Colorado | Add Event |
| Dec 22, 1981 Tue | | Buffalo | St. Louis | Seiling-Sutter |
| Dec 22, 1981 Tue | | Hartford | Detroit | Wesley-Korn |
| Dec 23, 1981 Wed | | Winnipeg | NY Rangers | Add Event |
| Dec 23, 1981 Wed | | Boston | Washington | Pederson-Carpenter |
| Dec 23, 1981 Wed | | Colorado | Los Angeles | Lorimer-Taylor Wensink-Lewis (5)  Cirella-Smith |
| Dec 23, 1981 Wed | | Minnesota | Calgary | Add Event |
| Dec 23, 1981 Wed | | Vancouver | Edmonton | Delorme-Semenko |
| Dec 23, 1981 Wed | | Philadelphia | Chicago | Hoffmeyer-Dupont (5.5)  |
| Dec 23, 1981 Wed | | Pittsburgh | Toronto | Graham-McGill (3) |
| Dec 26, 1981 Sat | | Boston | Hartford | Add Event |
| Dec 26, 1981 Sat | | Philadelphia | NY Islanders | Allison-Sutter Hoffmeyer-Marini Cochrane-Marini (7)  (Rough) Linseman-Bourne Cochrane-Nystrom (3.8)  |
| Dec 26, 1981 Sat | | Buffalo | Pittsburgh | Add Event |
| Dec 26, 1981 Sat | | NY Rangers | Washington | Duguay-Robertson Younghans-Walter |
| Dec 26, 1981 Sat | | Los Angeles | Vancouver | Hopkins-Snepsts Wells-Fraser (6)  |
| Dec 26, 1981 Sat | | Calgary | Colorado | Add Event |
| Dec 26, 1981 Sat | | St. Louis | Minnesota | (Rough) Kea-Giles Babych-Carlson (6)  |
| Dec 26, 1981 Sat | | Detroit | Toronto | Add Event |
| Dec 26, 1981 Sat | | Chicago | Winnipeg | Fox-Lukowich |
| Dec 27, 1981 Sun | | Quebec | Montreal | Add Event |
| Dec 27, 1981 Sun | | Washington | Buffalo | Robertson-Playfair Jarvis-Dunn |
| Dec 27, 1981 Sun | | Toronto | Hartford | Robert-Stoughton Vaive-Kotsopoulos |
| Dec 27, 1981 Sun | | Pittsburgh | NY Rangers | (Cheap) Harrison-Fotiu (6)  Mini-Brawl at 52:48 Baxter-Fotiu (2)  |
| Dec 27, 1981 Sun | | Los Angeles | Edmonton | Add Event |
| Dec 27, 1981 Sun | | St. Louis | Chicago | Pavese-Bulley |
| Dec 27, 1981 Sun | | Detroit | Winnipeg | Vail-DeBlois |
| Dec 28, 1981 Mon | | Philadelphia | Calgary | Adams-Bourgeois Hoffmeyer-Peplinski Cochrane-Hunter (6.6)  Adams-Bourgeois |
| Dec 28, 1981 Mon | | Colorado | Minnesota | Add Event |
| Dec 29, 1981 Tue | | Chicago | Quebec | Dupont-Frycer Secord-Stastny |
| Dec 29, 1981 Tue | | Montreal | NY Islanders | (Hit) Herron-unknown Sevigny-Trottier |
| Dec 29, 1981 Tue | | Boston | Vancouver | Baron-Williams Melnyk-Smyl Kasper-Campbell |
| Dec 29, 1981 Tue | | Hartford | St. Louis | Gillen-Pavese |
| Dec 30, 1981 Wed | | Chicago | Montreal | Bulley-Nilan |
| Dec 30, 1981 Wed | | NY Islanders | NY Rangers | Sutter-Johnstone Gillies-Hospodar (8.9)  |
| Dec 30, 1981 Wed | | Washington | Pittsburgh | Holt-Chorney Holt-Lee |
| Dec 30, 1981 Wed | | Boston | Calgary | Kasper-LaVallee |
| Dec 30, 1981 Wed | | Philadelphia | Edmonton | (Rough) Linseman-Fogolin |
| Dec 30, 1981 Wed | | Los Angeles | Colorado | Add Event |
| Dec 30, 1981 Wed | | St. Louis | Toronto | (Cheap) Turnbull-Salming Sutter-McGill (4)  |
| Dec 30, 1981 Wed | | Hartford | Winnipeg | Add Event |
| Dec 31, 1981 Thu | | Minnesota | Buffalo | Add Event |
| Dec 31, 1981 Thu | | Edmonton | Vancouver | Fogolin-Williams Scrum at 7:30 Semenko-Campbell |
| Dec 31, 1981 Thu | | Toronto | Detroit | Add Event |