| Sep 6, 2002 Fri | Preseason | Detroit | Atlanta | Kiser-Gratton (8) Kiser-Black (6.5) Ward-Ustrnul |
| Sep 29, 2002 Sun | Preseason | Detroit | Chicago | Greenough-VandenBussche (4.3) (Almost) Maltby-Fleury |
| Oct 1, 2002 Tue | Preseason | St. Louis | Detroit | Salvador-Avery (4) Nash-Kuznetsov (3) |
| Oct 13, 2002 Sun | | Detroit | Anaheim | (Cheap) Dandenault-Sykora (3) |
| Nov 3, 2002 Sun | | Dallas | Detroit | DiMaio-Avery (5.8) (Cheap) Lehtinen-Chelios (4) |
| Nov 5, 2002 Tue | | Chicago | Detroit | (Rough) Nikolishin-Chelios (4) |
| Nov 16, 2002 Sat | | Detroit | Toronto | (Cheap) McCarty-Tucker (4) |
| Nov 19, 2002 Tue | | Detroit | Calgary | McCarty-Begin (7.6) Wallin-Kobasew |
| Dec 3, 2002 Tue | | Anaheim | Detroit | (Cheap) Sykora-McCarty (4) |
| Jan 11, 2003 Sat | | Detroit | Philadelphia | (Hit) Bykov-Brashear (4) McCarty-Brashear (6) |
| Feb 8, 2003 Sat | | Detroit | Colorado | (Hit) Devereaux-Shantz (Rough) Fedorov-Foote |
| Feb 20, 2003 Thu | | Edmonton | Detroit | Laraque-Kuznetsov (3.8) Ferguson-Maltby (1) |
| Feb 24, 2003 Mon | | Los Angeles | Detroit | (Hit) Eloranta-Maltby (4) Scrum at 9:31 (3) |