He was always a terrible choice for captain, and that's not his fault. We named him captain here because he was captain in New York, and Babcock thinks leadership is showing up 15 minutes early for practice every day.
Dude is clearly not comfortable with being one of the boys, he's just a quiet, chill guy who wants to hang out at home with the wife and kids. Nothing wrong with that at all, you do you Johnny. But unless that quiet and chill guy turns into a big dick savage in pressure situations on the ice and is the ultimate "lead by example" type, that's not a good captain.