In his first televised comments since being fired, Bruce Cassidy said he “would’ve liked to have seen it through” before the Vegas Golden Knights let him go with eight games remaining in the regular season. Cassidy was a guest analyst on TNT’s playoff coverage on Monday. “You grind for 74 games and you want to be there at the end,” he said. That’s the payoff — playing for the Cup, getting your name on the Cup again,” Cassidy said. The longest-tenured coach in Knights history was fired March 29 with the Knights sitting in third place in the Pacific Division. He was replaced by John Tortorella, who went 7-0-1 in the final eight games and guided the Knights to a fifth division title in nine years. “Vegas, they have their standards. They felt we weren’t there. They made a change,” Cassidy said.…