| Sep 21, 1979 Fri | Preseason | Washington | Pittsburgh | Hextall-Wolf Rissling-Clackson Mulvey-Wolf |
| Sep 21, 1979 Fri | Preseason | Washington | Philadelphia | Coulis-Gillen Pocza-Decker |
| Sep 26, 1979 Wed | Preseason | Washington | Pittsburgh | Mulvey-Wolf Coulis-Anderson |
| Oct 14, 1979 Sun | | Washington | NY Rangers | Lane-Esposito Polis-Vadnais (5.3) Labre-Marois (4.5) |
| Oct 20, 1979 Sat | | Washington | Pittsburgh | Walter-Clackson Rowe-Unknown |
| Oct 27, 1979 Sat | | Washington | Vancouver | Lane-Vaive Mulvey-Snepsts |
| Nov 3, 1979 Sat | | Washington | Minnesota | Hextall-Maxwell Mulvey-Hartsburg |
| Nov 15, 1979 Thu | | Washington | Boston | Labre-Cashman Walter-O'Reilly |
| Nov 18, 1979 Sun | | Atlanta | Washington | Plett-Green (3) Plett-Mulvey (5.5) |
| Dec 1, 1979 Sat | | Quebec | Washington | Lariviere-Mulvey Leduc-Rowe |
| Jan 11, 1980 Fri | | Vancouver | Washington | Brawl at 0:30 Vaive-Svensson Snepsts-Walter |
| Jan 12, 1980 Sat | | Washington | NY Islanders | Green-Sutter (5) Walter-Lane |
| Feb 16, 1980 Sat | | Washington | Vancouver | Gartner-Vaive Mulvey-Snepsts |
| Mar 12, 1980 Wed | | Boston | Washington | Jonathan-Gustafsson O'Reilly-Mulvey O'Reilly-Mulvey |
| Mar 15, 1980 Sat | | Detroit | Washington | Foligno-Green (9) Polonich-Mulvey (3.7) |
| Mar 18, 1980 Tue | | Colorado | Washington | Delorme-Mulvey Christie-Picard |
| Apr 3, 1980 Thu | | Washington | Philadelphia | Rissling-Kelly (2.5) Picard-McIlhargey (3.5) Gartner-McIlhargey (2.8) |