For decades, more than a dozen boys who have since grown into men have known it: There were more victims.

Gordon Stuckless didn't just assault the two dozen boys that he admitted to assaulting in the late 1990s. The former Maple Leaf Gardens employee, volunteer hockey and lacrosse coach and gym teacher pleaded guilty Tuesday to 100 more charges involving 18 victims.

One of those victims is dead, court heard, killed by a drug overdose in April 2004 when he was 32 years old. His mother took his story to police last year.

"The sexual abuse would occur in Stuckless's car, in the arena locker room, in the classroom, in the school washroom, change room or office, outdoors, at the movie theatre, at the dentist office Stuckless cleaned, at a home he was house-sitting, in the children's own homes, and at Maple Leaf Gardens," Crown attorney Kelly Beale told court, reading from an agreed statement of facts.

"He would groom and coerce the children. They became eager to please him. He would tell them not to tell anyone about the abuse. He would tell them that what they were doing was normal and fine."

Court heard that Stuckless assaulted the boys in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, often promising to introduce them to their hockey heroes -- false promises, as they turned out, simply used to lure and victimize.

He pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges of sexual assault, indecent assault and gross indecency.

Stuckless, now 65, pleaded not guilty to eight charges, including assault, weapons dangerous, buggery and gross indecency. He is expected to face those charges in trial in the coming weeks.

"People are still being hurt by this man. The hurt never goes away. It's still there," said Michael McTague, who was a victim named in Stuckless's 1997 guilty plea. "I'm bleeding inside. I bleed every day. The nightmares never go away. I've had counselling, I've seen psychiatrists, I've been on pills, everything."

As it so happens, Tuesday would have been the 52nd birthday of Martin Kruze, the first victim to approach police with sex-abuse allegations in 1997. Kruze committed suicide two days after Stuckless was sentenced to two years, less a day, for the crimes he pleaded guilty to.

"He's a dangerous perpetrator," said Kruze's brother, Gary Kruze, who has advocated for the rights of sexual abuse victims since his brother's death. "We kind of equate it to murder. Murder, when the victim dies, their pain ends. With sexual abuse, it continues on with the rest of their lives. It's a life sentence of pain."

Allan Donnan, a Stuckless survivor from the 90s court case, was also at court Tuesday.

"For thirty years, he was cold, he was calculated, he was pre-meditated. He thought about who, he thought about how, he thought about when," Donnan said outside the courthouse. "He perfected his craft. He was the best. Look at the cities. Look at the towns. Look at where he offended. Look how long it took."

According to defence lawyer Ari Goldkind, the Crown will be asking that Stuckless be named a dangerous offender, which would mean he could spend the rest of his life in prison with an indeterminate sentence. Goldkind has not indicated what sentence he would prefer, but said he would fight the dangerous offender bid.

"Not a lot of people understand what's gone on with Mr. Stuckless. He is public enemy number one," Goldkind said, adding that since Stuckless was released from jail in 2001, "Mr. Stuckless made a vow that he would never, ever harm another young person again."

Since his release, Stuckless has undergone chemical castration, Goldkind noted.

"Mr. Stuckless does feel remorse and he has shown that since 2001 by the steps he has taken. He's not just talked the talk, he's walked it," Goldkind said.

Court heard that many of Stuckless's victims came from broken homes and poverty. Stuckless often befriended his victims' parents. He abused one boy several times while staying overnight in the basement of his home, while the victim's parents slept upstairs, according to the agreed statement of facts.

That boy met Stuckless when he would visit his grandparents in Toronto’s Regent Park neighbourhood, court heard. The now 44-year-old man's parents were not active in his life, his father was an alcoholic and his home was in "constant turmoil," Beale told court.

Stuckless repeatedly promised to teach the boy how to skate, but never did. He promised to set up a meeting with the boy's favourite hockey player. Instead, he assaulted him.

"He told (the victim) that this was not something bad and that all the boys did this," Beale said."(The victim) asked if Stuckless did this with all the boys at the rink. Stuckless said yes but to keep it between them as it was their secret."

The victim -- who later died of a drug overdose -- met Stuckless in the 1980s, when he was 12 years old and when Stuckless coached his minor hockey team in Richmond Hill.

"Stuckless first befriended (the victim) and then befriended his parents. He was welcomed into the family home and attended family meals," Beale told court.

Stuckless took the boy to movies and, every weekend for four months, to Maple Leaf Gardens. The boy returned home with hockey sticks signed by Maple Leaf players. That boy would later move to the United States to play professional hockey for 12 years, returning to Canada at 29 years old.

"When (he) returned, his mother asked him if Stuckless had ever sexually abused him," Beale said. "(He) disclosed, for the first time, that he had."