| Sep 15, 1996 Sun | Preseason | Vancouver | San Jose | Odjick-Nolan (5) Zajankala-Ewen |
| Sep 17, 1996 Tue | Preseason | San Jose | Edmonton | Wood-Bonvie Downey-Muir Wood-DeBrusk LiPuma-Richardson |
| Sep 18, 1996 Wed | Preseason | San Jose | Vancouver | Unknown-Crowder Ewen-Odjick Ewen-Crowder Ewen-Walker LiPuma-Walker |
| Sep 19, 1996 Thu | Preseason | NY Rangers | San Jose | Langdon-Gill Berg-Bodger Churla-Sykora More-Nazarov |
| Sep 24, 1996 Tue | Preseason | Pittsburgh | San Jose | Add Fight |
| Sep 26, 1996 Thu | Preseason | Colorado | San Jose | Add Fight |
| Sep 28, 1996 Sat | Preseason | Boston | San Jose | Scrum at 0:08 McLaren-Ewen (5) (Rough) Odgers-Wood (1) Richter-Wood (3) |
| Sep 30, 1996 Mon | Preseason | San Jose | Colorado | Nazarov-Severyn Nazarov-Severyn Gill-Lacroix Hunter-Deadmarsh Tancill-Corbet |
| Oct 5, 1996 Sat | | NY Islanders | San Jose | Add Fight |
| Oct 6, 1996 Sun | | San Jose | Los Angeles | Ewen-Johnson (6) |
| Oct 8, 1996 Tue | | San Jose | Colorado | Event |
| Oct 10, 1996 Thu | | San Jose | Phoenix | (Cheap) Bodger-King (3) (Cheap) Nolan-Drake (2.5) Nazarov-Manson (2.5) (Rough) Sykora-Tkachuk (1) Nazarov-McKenzie (6) (Cheap) Iafrate-King (6) Nolan-Drake (3) Hunter-King (8) |
| Oct 12, 1996 Sat | | Boston | San Jose | Mallette-Hunter (3.3) (Cheap) McLaren-Friesen (2) Tocchet-Iafrate (4.5) Stewart-Hawgood (3) |
| Oct 16, 1996 Wed | | Florida | San Jose | Add Fight |
| Oct 18, 1996 Fri | | San Jose | Anaheim | Hawgood-Salei |
| Oct 20, 1996 Sun | | San Jose | St. Louis | Add Fight |
| Oct 22, 1996 Tue | | San Jose | Toronto | (Cheap) Hunter-Murphy (4) Nazarov-Domi (3.3) |
| Oct 24, 1996 Thu | | San Jose | New Jersey | Add Fight |
| Oct 26, 1996 Sat | | San Jose | NY Islanders | Add Fight |
| Oct 27, 1996 Sun | | San Jose | Chicago | Nazarov-Ciccone Gill-McRae |
| Oct 30, 1996 Wed | | Calgary | San Jose | Add Fight |
| Nov 1, 1996 Fri | | San Jose | Anaheim | (Cheap) Nazarov-Stevenson (Rough) Iafrate-Rychel (Rough) Nolan-Baumgartner |
| Nov 2, 1996 Sat | | Montreal | San Jose | Scrum (3) (Hit) Savage-Iafrate (4) |
| Nov 6, 1996 Wed | | Colorado | San Jose | (Cheap) Severyn-Nolan (2) (Rough) Forsberg-Sykora (3) (Rough) Roy-Nolan (2) Scrum at 30:19 (3) (Rough) Foote-Nazarov (Cheap) Krupp-Nazarov (2) (Cheap) Yelle-Nazarov (3) Severyn-Nazarov (2.8) (Rough) Deadmarsh-Nicholls (3) |
| Nov 8, 1996 Fri | | Dallas | San Jose | Harvey-Hunter (5.2) |
| Nov 12, 1996 Tue | | Hartford | San Jose | (Rough) Coffey-Hunter (Cheap) Burke-Nolan (2) |
| Nov 15, 1996 Fri | | San Jose | Detroit | McSorley-Shanahan (7.5) McSorley-McCarty (3) (Cheap) Sykora-Shanahan (5) Sykora-Shanahan (6.2) (Almost) Nazarov-McCarty (2) Ewen-Pushor (6.2) |
| Nov 16, 1996 Sat | | San Jose | Philadelphia | McSorley-Daniels (7) |
| Nov 18, 1996 Mon | | San Jose | Boston | Ewen-Chynoweth (2) |
| Nov 21, 1996 Thu | | Detroit | San Jose | (Cheap) Konstantinov-Ewen (4) (Hit) Holmstrom-Nazarov (1) Scrum at 27:08 (7) |
| Nov 23, 1996 Sat | | Anaheim | San Jose | Baumgartner-Ewen (4) Baumgartner-Nazarov (3) Rychel-LiPuma |
| Nov 27, 1996 Wed | | Chicago | San Jose | Event (Cheap) Smith-Granato (3) Ciccone-Nazarov (6) (Rough) Chelios-Wood (2) |
| Nov 29, 1996 Fri | | Edmonton | San Jose | Add Fight |
| Dec 1, 1996 Sun | | San Jose | St. Louis | Nazarov-Peluso (5.2) (Rough) Friesen-Campbell (1) |
| Dec 4, 1996 Wed | | San Jose | Dallas | Scrum (2) |
| Dec 7, 1996 Sat | | Tampa Bay | San Jose | Myhres-McSorley (6.2) |
| Dec 11, 1996 Wed | | Washington | San Jose | Simon-Ewen (7.7) |
| Dec 13, 1996 Fri | | Pittsburgh | San Jose | Add Fight |
| Dec 17, 1996 Tue | | Toronto | San Jose | Add Fight |
| Dec 20, 1996 Fri | | San Jose | Washington | Add Fight |
| Dec 21, 1996 Sat | | San Jose | Pittsburgh | Add Fight |
| Dec 23, 1996 Mon | | San Jose | Dallas | Add Fight |
| Dec 26, 1996 Thu | | Vancouver | San Jose | Add Fight |
| Dec 28, 1996 Sat | | San Jose | Edmonton | (Cheap) Hawgood-Mironov (5.5) Nazarov-Richardson (6) |
| Dec 31, 1996 Tue | | San Jose | Calgary | Wood-Iginla (6) (Cheap) Granato-Bouchard (5) (Rough) McSorley-McCarthy (3) (Rough) Wood-Stern (1) (Cheap) Nicholls-unknown McSorley-McCarthy (7.2) Nolan-Bouchard (3) |
| Jan 2, 1997 Thu | | Philadelphia | San Jose | Scrum at 26:17 (2) Bowen-Wood (1) |
| Jan 4, 1997 Sat | | Calgary | San Jose | Add Fight |
| Jan 7, 1997 Tue | | Buffalo | San Jose | Ray-Wood (4) Scrum at 25:35 (2) (Rough) Ray-Gill (2) Boughner-Wood (5.3) |
| Jan 9, 1997 Thu | | St. Louis | San Jose | Twist-Ewen (8) |
| Jan 11, 1997 Sat | | San Jose | Edmonton | Ewen-DeBrusk (3.8) (Rough) McSorley-Richardson (2) Wood-Richardson (6) |
| Jan 13, 1997 Mon | | Phoenix | San Jose | McKenzie-Ewen (6.5) |
| Jan 20, 1997 Mon | | San Jose | Vancouver | Hunter-Brashear (6.8) (Cheap) Wood-Wotton (4) |
| Jan 22, 1997 Wed | | Los Angeles | San Jose | Add Fight |
| Jan 24, 1997 Fri | | New Jersey | San Jose | Add Fight |
| Jan 27, 1997 Mon | | San Jose | Vancouver | Wood-Walker (8) Wood-Brashear (7.2) Gill-Joseph (4.5) |
| Jan 29, 1997 Wed | | San Jose | Edmonton | (Cheap) Iafrate-Kovalenko (4.5) Wood-Grier (5.7) |
| Jan 30, 1997 Thu | | San Jose | Calgary | Nolan-Hulse (5.5) (Rough) McSorley-Stern (1) Wood-Stern (7.8) |
| Feb 1, 1997 Sat | | Colorado | San Jose | Add Fight |
| Feb 3, 1997 Mon | | Chicago | San Jose | (Cheap) Amonte-Bodger |
| Feb 5, 1997 Wed | | Los Angeles | San Jose | (Hit) O'Donnell-Nazarov (2) Brawl at 30:49 (8.3) Potomski-Nolan (5.5) Johnson-Nazarov (5.7) (Rough) Bylsma-Iafrate (Hit) Olczyk-Wood (2) (Cheap) Blake-Donovan (6) (Rough) Finn-Ewen (3.5) (Cheap) Khristich-Granato |
| Feb 8, 1997 Sat | | San Jose | Ottawa | Wood-Lambert |
| Feb 10, 1997 Mon | | San Jose | Montreal | (Cheap) McSorley-Recchi (3) |
| Feb 12, 1997 Wed | | San Jose | Detroit | (Rough) Bodger-Maltby (2) (Cheap) Errey-Kocur (2) Wood-McCarty (5.7) (Rough) Hawgood-Maltby (2) |
| Feb 13, 1997 Thu | | San Jose | Chicago | (Cheap) Wood-Dahlen (2) LiPuma-Cummins (8.3) Hunter-Ciccone (5) Ewen-Probert (5.4) McSorley-Ciccone (3.5) Scrum at 49:32 (3) Scrum at 59:14 (4) |
| Feb 16, 1997 Sun | | San Jose | Buffalo | (Rough) Ragnarsson-Audette (3) McSorley-Shannon (3.8) Nolan-Smehlik (3.3) Errey-Boughner (3.7) Wood-Boughner |
| Feb 18, 1997 Tue | | Dallas | San Jose | (Cheap) Matvichuk-Donovan Scrum at 3:25 Scrum at 30:20 |
| Feb 20, 1997 Thu | | Vancouver | San Jose | (Cheap) Lumme-Friesen (5) |
| Feb 23, 1997 Sun | | San Jose | Tampa Bay | (Hit) Kroupa-Wiemer (3) (Hit) Ragnarsson-Selivanov (1) Event Injury at 37:52 (2) Wood-Poeschek (6.5) |
| Feb 25, 1997 Tue | | San Jose | Florida | Hunter-Laus (3.2) Scrum at 26:11 (Rough) Nicholls-Svehla (Cheap) Hawgood-Lindsay (3) (Cheap) Nicholls-Jovanovski Scrum at 61:58 |
| Feb 28, 1997 Fri | | San Jose | Hartford | Add Fight |
| Mar 1, 1997 Sat | | San Jose | Toronto | Add Fight |
| Mar 3, 1997 Mon | | San Jose | NY Rangers | (Hit) McSorley-Oliver Wood-Cairns (5.6) |
| Mar 6, 1997 Thu | | Ottawa | San Jose | Lambert-Nolan Lambert-Ewen |
| Mar 9, 1997 Sun | | NY Rangers | San Jose | (Rough) Berg-McSorley Messier-McSorley (5.9) |
| Mar 11, 1997 Tue | | St. Louis | San Jose | Event |
| Mar 14, 1997 Fri | | Phoenix | San Jose | (Rough) Tkachuk-McSorley |
| Mar 15, 1997 Sat | | Detroit | San Jose | Scrum Scrum at 12:45 (Rough) McCarty-McSorley (4) (Cheap) Konstantinov-Gill (Rough) Konstantinov-Nolan |
| Mar 19, 1997 Wed | | San Jose | Calgary | (Rough) Nolan-Iginla (2) (Rough) McSorley-McCarthy McSorley-McCarthy (7.8) Wood-Featherstone (5.5) |
| Mar 20, 1997 Thu | | San Jose | Vancouver | McSorley-Brashear (7) Wood-Odjick (6) |
| Mar 22, 1997 Sat | | San Jose | Los Angeles | (Rough) Nazarov-O'Donnell (2) Scrum (2) (Rough) Belfour-Smyth (4) Wood-Vopat (7.2) |
| Mar 24, 1997 Mon | | Edmonton | San Jose | Scrum at 7:07 (3) (Cheap) Marchment-Nazarov (4) Brawl at 58:04 (7) Marchment-Nazarov (4) De Vries-McSorley (4) |
| Mar 26, 1997 Wed | | Toronto | San Jose | (Hit) Hendrickson-Ragnarsson (1) (Hit) Warriner-Gill (2) Domi-Wood (6.2) Chase-Wood (6) Chase-Wood (7) (Rough) Smith-Ewen Sullivan-Granato (2.5) Abuse at 55:00 (7) |
| Mar 28, 1997 Fri | | Edmonton | San Jose | Add Fight |
| Apr 1, 1997 Tue | | San Jose | Phoenix | Rathje-King (3) |
| Apr 2, 1997 Wed | | Anaheim | San Jose | (Hit) Mironov-Nolan (2.5) Scrum at 33:23 (1) |
| Apr 4, 1997 Fri | | Colorado | San Jose | Scrum at 47:47 |
| Apr 7, 1997 Mon | | Vancouver | San Jose | Brashear-McSorley (7.7) (Cheap) Bohonos-Ewen (2) (Refused) Brashear-McSorley |
| Apr 9, 1997 Wed | | San Jose | Colorado | Add Fight |
| Apr 11, 1997 Fri | | Anaheim | San Jose | (Rough) Selanne-Bodger (3) Dollas-Ewen (3.5) Baumgartner-Hunter (3) |
| Apr 12, 1997 Sat | | San Jose | Los Angeles | McSorley-McKenna (7.2) (Hit) Ragnarsson-Blake Nazarov-Smyth (4.8) McSorley-McKenna (5.7) |