While Hampus Lindholm’s return to the lineup will have to wait for at least another game, Jeffrey Viel will be making his season debut for the Bruins when they play a stacked Vegas Golden Knights team on Thursday night (10 pm).

The 28-year-old Viel has 54 NHL games on his resume, including five with the B’s last season. He’s also got five 100-plus PIM seasons in the AHL. He will go in for Marat Khusnutdinov on the fourth line with Sean Kuraly and Mark Kastelic.

“It’s not about (Khusnutdinov),” coach Marco Sturm told reporters at T-Mobile Arena after the morning skate. “I think he played great. He did his job. We just want to have a little heavier lineup today against a heavier team and Viel did an outstanding job in preseason.”

After the B’s went out and signed bottom-six players Kuraly

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