Brad Marchand will make his season debut when the Boston Bruins host the Detroit Red Wings on Thursday night.

The winger is coming off double hip surgery and is returning approximately one month ahead of schedule.

"As soon as it came up that I was going to have the surgery, they told me it was going to kind of be end of November (before he returned). I said, 'It's not going to be the end of November,'" Marchand told reporters. "We're going to see what we can do."